S5 09: Are Christians Really Pro-Life? With Riley Schneider
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
What anti-life lies do pro-life Christians believe? According to Riley Schneider, many Christians have subtle assumptions about children, parenting, and flourishing that contradict their pro-life convictions. And these lies are hindering the pro-life movement. As a young woman who faced death head-on, Riley is passionate about promoting life by advocating for unborn babies and parents in crisis. Tune in to hear her story and learn what Christians must do if we’re truly going to protect vulnerable lives in our anti-life culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Strong Women Podcast is a listener-funded program from the Colson Center that is only available for free because of listeners like you. |
| 0:12.7 | So to join our community of women who make this program possible, visit colsoncenter.org forward slash SW monthly today. |
| 0:27.7 | Welcome to the Strong Women Podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips |
| 0:39.1 | women to participate in his story. We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the |
| 0:45.1 | shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes |
| 0:50.5 | when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome back, you guys. Today on the Strong Women podcast, my guest is Riley Schneider. |
| 1:05.3 | Riley is the development director for Voices for the Voiceless. And that ministry is the whole mission there is |
| 1:12.6 | creating a world where every life is valued and no one faces unplanned pregnancy alone. And so |
| 1:20.6 | I cannot wait to learn your story, Riley, about how you got into this ministry, why you |
| 1:26.3 | care about these kind of things and how God has led you along the way. |
| 1:30.1 | So I'm so glad you're with us. Thanks for having me. All right. Let's jump in, Riley. Tell me about you. Did you grow up in a Christian home? I did. Yes. Both of my parents grew up in the Lutheran church. And when they eventually had my brother and I, they had moved us to an |
| 1:45.7 | evie-free, non-denominational church in the valley. And we really built a community there. I was |
| 1:52.7 | homeschooled through middle school and high school and had a number of friends that were also |
| 1:57.7 | homeschooled. So we had this whole community of believers. And I really |
| 2:01.7 | believe that my childhood growing up in this community is such a testament to my parents. They both grew up |
| 2:07.8 | in really broken families. They lived in poverty for most of their life. My mom practically raised |
| 2:14.8 | her sister. And so they were able to give us a childhood that they never |
| 2:19.8 | received. And for that, I'm so grateful. I was able to accept Jesus into my heart at eight |
| 2:26.4 | years old because of that and just enjoyed a childhood where I knew that Jesus loved me, and I knew that my parents loved me. |
| 2:37.0 | And I had an opportunity from a very young age to serve in my church as well, which I think is really unique and not something a lot of young people get to do. |
| 2:46.0 | A lot of, I would say, churches try to pour into the younger generation, but don't have that |
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