S5 17: How Advent Can Help You Prepare for Jesus this Christmas with Maggie Hudson
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we flip the script, and my friend Maggie interviews me about Advent. This season is meant to prepare us for Christ’s coming—and there are so many meaningful ways to observe it. Whether you’re new to Advent or not, tune in for a conversation about the depth and beauty of Advent and the many ways you can observe it through music, art, reading, and tradition. You might just learn some things about Advent that you didn’t know!
Show Notes:
This episode of the Strong Women podcast corresponds with our Strong Women Advent 2024 reading plan. We’re reading A Christmas Carol together this year, and you can read with us! Get your free reading guide at colsoncenter.org/advent.
Grab a copy of A Christmas Carol. Here are several options:
Bonus: Illustrations by John Leech
Adaptations of A Christmas Carol to watch:
Traditional
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A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim (1951) (Titled Scrooge in the U.K.)
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A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott (1984)
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A Christmas Carol with Sir Patrick Stewart (1999)
Musical
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Scrooge with Albert Finney (1970)
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A Christmas Carol (1994) (Broadway production. See here for upcoming performances near you)
Unconventional
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The Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine (1992)
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A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey (2009) (Animated feature)
Let me know what you think of these adaptations! Pop into the Strong Women Podcast Community Facebook group to let me know what’s your favorite adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Related Podcast Episodes:
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A Defense of Christmas (Classical Stuff You Should Know)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 0:16.0 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman |
| 0:22.3 | and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm so glad you're here. Welcome back, Strong Women. I'm so glad you're with us today. I have my |
| 0:36.7 | good friend, Maggie Hudson. |
| 0:38.7 | Not only is she my good friend, but she's also the marketing manager for the Colson Center. |
| 0:43.8 | And she wears lots of other hats, but that's what she does for us. And for Strong Women, specifically, she is our social media girl. |
| 0:51.9 | So all those pretty things you see are inspired by Maggie and our |
| 0:57.1 | creative team. But we're so grateful for Maggie. So Maggie and I decided we wanted to have a |
| 1:04.8 | conversation about Advent and loop you in. So Maggie, thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited for this, |
| 1:12.6 | and I was so excited when you reached out to me to talk about this episode in particular, |
| 1:17.6 | to really dive into what is Advent. I don't know if you knew this, Sarah, but I grew up |
| 1:24.5 | Southern Baptist, and so I did not grow up celebrating Advent, and I really |
| 1:29.4 | wasn't familiar with what it was entirely until I became friends with you and other people |
| 1:35.7 | on the Colson team that I've learned so much about the history and the beauty of this season. |
| 1:41.8 | And so I'm excited for the listener who is like me that doesn't really know, like, |
| 1:47.5 | what is Advent and why is it so important? |
| 1:50.4 | Well, me too. |
| 1:51.2 | I grew up Southern Baptist. |
| 1:53.0 | I had never even heard the word Advent until I think, I'm trying to think my first introduction. |
| 2:00.6 | I think it was when right after I got married, |
| 2:02.9 | we were going to a Presbyterian church. |
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