S4 41: You Are Not a Machine With Joy Clarkson
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
You and I are not machines. We are trees. That’s just one of the beautiful observations in Joy Clarkson’s latest book, You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer. Joy joins us this week for a delightful conversation about metaphors and how they deepen our understanding of the human experience, including love, sadness, creativity, and even our own humanity.
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| 0:00.0 | We're living in a chaotic and confused world. |
| 0:05.0 | Even the question, what is a woman, has suddenly become controversial? |
| 0:09.0 | In the face of this confusion, the Strong Women Podcast exists to offer the clarity of the Christian worldview, |
| 0:17.0 | including what does it mean to be made in the image of God as a woman? |
| 0:21.9 | We can only do this work because of the financial support of listeners just like you, |
| 0:27.1 | which allows us to offer the Strong Women Podcast free of charge. |
| 0:30.6 | To support the ongoing production of the Strong Women Podcast this year, |
| 0:34.8 | please make a gift to the Colson Center by June 30th at |
| 0:38.9 | colsoncenter.org forward slash SW Clarity. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 1:04.1 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life |
| 1:12.4 | that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:21.5 | Welcome back to the Strong Women podcast. My guest today is Joy Clarkson, and she loves to think about, arrange, and paint beautiful |
| 1:31.4 | pictures with words. That's how I summarize Joy Clarkson. She's an advocate for the life-giving |
| 1:38.3 | gift of beauty, anywhere from art to good conversations, to a beautifully brewed cup of tea. Am I right, Joy? |
| 1:47.6 | Does that describe you pretty well? It covers a whole bunch of things that I love, so well said. |
| 1:53.0 | She lives in Scotland, and she kind of travels a good bit around the UK doing different things. |
| 1:59.1 | She's a research associate in theology and literature at King's College in London, and she's a book |
| 2:04.4 | editor for Plow Quarterly, which is a beautiful magazine. |
| 2:09.4 | If you don't know about it, you should check it out. |
| 2:11.5 | You can read their articles online as well. |
| 2:13.7 | But I recently read your book, You Are a Tree Tree and other metaphors to nourish life, thought, |
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