S4 10: A Non-Obsessive Approach to Caring for Our Bodies With Lainey Greer
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Many of us struggle with body image. Our bodies matter and we are called to care for them—but how do we do that without obsessing? What does it look like to steward our bodies? This week, Lainey Greer joins us to answer these questions. Lainey uses her unique background of exercise science and Ph.D. work in systematic theology, with an emphasis on human embodiment, to equip Christians with a biblical view of the body that applies to everyday life. We talk about the big picture of stewarding our health and what that looks like practically.
Lainey's website: https://laineygreer.com/
Be Well: Learning to Steward Your Health by Dr. Lainey Greer
Lainey's curriculum – Understand Healthy
Our Bodies Tell God's Story: Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender by Christopher West
Providence by John Piper
The Practice of Godliness by Jerry Bridges
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| 0:00.0 | In the last few years, secular society has slipped into a critical theory mood, |
| 0:07.0 | where group categories like race, gender, and class determine who is right and who is wrong, about nearly everything. |
| 0:14.0 | These ideas have had devastating consequences. Christians must be informed about the ideas set forth by critical theory so that we can lovingly respond to them with biblical discernment and truth. |
| 0:26.9 | Neil Schenby and Pat Sawyer's latest book, Critical Dilemma, takes a look at critical theory in all its forms from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:35.4 | They help us to understand the foundational ideas of critical theory, |
| 0:39.5 | how it contradicts the truth of God's Word, |
| 0:41.8 | and how Christians can respond to these bad ideas with biblical truth. |
| 0:46.8 | We'll send you a copy of this important book as a thank you |
| 0:49.9 | for your gift to the Colson Center in October. |
| 0:52.4 | Request your copy today at colsoncenter.org |
| 0:55.7 | forward slash SW Critical Dilemma. |
| 0:59.3 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and |
| 1:17.0 | equips women to participate in his story. We're here to encourage one another as we step out |
| 1:23.0 | of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes |
| 1:28.7 | when we walk out our design. I'm so glad you're here. Okay, welcome back to the Strong |
| 1:35.5 | Women podcast. I'm really thrilled to introduce you to our guest today, Lainey Greer. Lainey has |
| 1:41.0 | served the local church for over 10 years and spent 20 years as a personal trainer. |
| 1:46.5 | She holds a bachelor's degree in exercise science, a master's in Christian leadership, and a PhD in systematic theology, which I just love that combination. |
| 1:56.9 | Also, with that degree, she emphasized human embodiment. |
| 2:01.8 | That theme keeps coming up. |
| 2:03.6 | Our bodies matter. |
| 2:05.7 | And so I'm excited about this conversation. |
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