S4 30. Read for the Love of God With Jessica Hooten Wilson
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Stories have a profound way of shaping us. They form our attention, affections, and our character, for better or worse. That’s why reading what’s good, true, and beautiful matters—and this takes practice. Jessica Hooten Wilson returns to the podcast to help us embrace the practice of reading as a means of spiritual formation.
Doubts and hard questions are a welcome part of the Christian life. But many young Christians today are being encouraged to “deconstruct” their faith. Culture becomes the standard of truth instead of Scripture, and many young believers walk away from faith altogether. To help the Church offer a better way to those who are deconstructing, Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett have written The Deconstruction of Christianity. They define what deconstruction really is, why it’s appealing to so many, and why it’s harmful. They also equip us to love those who are deconstructing by welcoming the hard questions while also upholding truth. This month, get a copy of The Deconstruction of Christianity by giving a gift of any amount to the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org/swdeconstruction
Reading for the Love of God by Jessica Hooten Wilson
The Scandal of Holiness by Jessica Hooten Wilson
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination by William F. Lynch
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Kristin Lavransdatter Vol. I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor
On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine
Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S.R. Austen
A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper
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| 0:00.0 | Doubts and hard questions are a welcome part of the Christian life. |
| 0:07.0 | But many young Christians today are being encouraged to deconstruct their faith. |
| 0:13.0 | Culture becomes the standard of truth instead of Scripture, and many young believers walk away from faith altogether. |
| 0:19.0 | To help the church offer a better way to |
| 0:21.8 | those who are deconstructing, Elisa Childers and Tim Barnett have written The Deconstruction |
| 0:27.3 | of Christianity. In this, they define what deconstruction really is, why it's appealing to |
| 0:33.4 | so many, and why it's harmful. They also equip us to love those who are deconstructing |
| 0:39.2 | by welcoming the hard questions |
| 0:41.3 | while also upholding truth. |
| 0:43.8 | This month, get a copy of the deconstruction of Christianity |
| 0:47.0 | by giving a gift of any amount to the Colson Center |
| 0:50.1 | at colsoncenter.org forward slash |
| 0:53.3 | SW. SW deconstruction. |
| 0:56.1 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women |
| 1:12.7 | to participate in his story. We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow |
| 1:18.6 | definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk |
| 1:24.5 | out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:32.1 | Welcome back, listeners. I'm so glad that you've joined us again. Our guest today is a returning |
| 1:36.8 | guest, Jessica Houton Wilson. And as you guys know, we love to talk about books with Jessica. |
| 1:43.8 | And so I'm so excited about today's conversation. |
| 1:47.9 | I just finished her book, Reading for the Love of God. |
| 1:51.2 | And I think you guys are going to just flip out at the things that Jessica points out about reading good literature. |
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