S3 24: Learning to Know and Love God with Our Minds With Melissa Cain Travis
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is Dr. Melissa Cain Travis, an Affiliate Faculty member at Colorado Christian University's Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics. Melissa loves to read about, talk about, teach about, and discuss ideas—from philosophy to faith to the relationship between faith and science. We talk about the importance of "intellectual discipleship": loving God with our minds, including how to foster that love in small, doable ways in our learning, with those around us, and in our own churches.
Thinking God's Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility by Dr. Melissa Cain Travis
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Remembering by Wendell Berry
The Truth About Science and Religion: From the Big Bang to Neuroscience by Fraser Fleming and Gary Ferngrin
Exhalation by Ted Chang
Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine (the woman she would like to have coffee with)
"Mind Your Mind" by Annie Brownell Crawford and Melissa Cain Travis, Salvo Magazine
Course Dr. Travis is teaching at DiscoveryU later in the summer
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| 0:00.0 | Strong women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference online. |
| 0:12.8 | Use promo code Strong Women, which is all one word, to get $5 off of the $49 ticket price. |
| 0:20.7 | For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian Worldview Conference at your own leisure. |
| 0:32.5 | Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding |
| 0:51.8 | of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm Sarah Stone Street. And I'm Erin Kunkel. Glad you're here. |
| 1:04.3 | Hey, everyone. Before we jump in, I just want to let you know that unfortunately, Aaron is not |
| 1:10.3 | able to join us this week, |
| 1:12.2 | but we've got a great conversation ahead, so I hope you'll stay tuned. |
| 1:16.2 | This week, Dr. Melissa Kane-Travs joins me to talk about loving God with our minds. |
| 1:23.1 | One of the things that you will quickly learn about Melissa is that she loves to read about, talk about, |
| 1:30.2 | teach about, and discuss ideas from philosophy to faith and also science and faith and how |
| 1:38.2 | they go together. They're not warring against each other. And we'll unpack that a little |
| 1:43.2 | bit in our conversation. So stay tuned |
| 1:45.2 | for that. We also talk about what does it look like to cultivate this loving God with our minds |
| 1:51.9 | in small, doable ways in our own learning, with those around us, and in our churches. |
| 1:59.1 | Melissa is an author, speaker, teacher, wife, mother. She also presides |
| 2:04.8 | over the Society for Women of Letters, so stay tuned to find out more about what that's all about. |
| 2:11.0 | So basically, Melissa wears a lot of hats, and she does it so well. I know that you're going to |
| 2:16.3 | enjoy getting to know Melissa, and I'm so |
| 2:18.3 | glad you're here. Melissa, thank you so much for joining us today. I am so glad to be here with you. |
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