S5 18: Remembrance and Repentance: The Ghost of Christmas Past with Abigail Stonestreet
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We’re diving into the first part of A Christmas Carol, starting with an introduction to the greedy, miserable miser Ebenezer Scrooge. My daughter Abigail joins me today to explore who Scrooge is at the beginning of the novel, and how his encounters with the ghost of Jacob Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Past begin to change him ... or do they? Tune in and find out!
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 to the Strong Women podcast for our first Advent episode. |
| 0:38.9 | And today I have a Uber, maybe the most special guest that I've ever had on. |
| 0:46.6 | And it's my oldest daughter, Abigail Stone Street. |
| 0:49.1 | Hello. |
| 0:49.9 | Hi. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm happy to be here. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:52.2 | This is so exciting. |
| 0:53.1 | It is so exciting. |
| 1:16.1 | Well, let me tell you just a tiny bit about Abigail. I could gush and gush and gush about how wonderful Abigail is. But here's what I want to say in summary. First of all, I should say that Abigail's a sophomore in college and she's studying history. But it's been amazing to be Abigail's mom. And I'm so glad that job is not over. But the last year and a half that she's been at college, it's been really overwhelming to watch her grow into |
| 1:23.1 | this beautiful, thoughtful young woman who loves the Lord and just wants to follow him. And it's so |
| 1:32.9 | incredible to watch God work in her life and her respond. So anyway, that is what I want to say |
| 1:39.6 | in summary about Abigail. There's so much more I could say. But the other thing I want to say |
| 1:44.0 | is she loves books. |
| 1:45.4 | She loves, loves books. And so I asked Abigail to come on today to talk about the opening of the |
| 1:52.7 | Christmas Carol and the Ghost of Christmas Past. So thanks for coming, Abigail. What do you think about |
| 1:59.6 | being named the most specialist guest? That is a huge honor. And I don't know if you can even say that yet since I haven't done the podcast. It's true. We haven't even recorded yet. I just put a lot of pressure on you. That was a lot of pressure. I know you're going to live up to that. Okay. All right, let's start with talking about our first experiences with the Christmas Carol. You go first. Okay. Well, I think both of our first experiences kind of match up if I'm thinking right. Nope. I lied. My first experience was with my mom, though, and it is that she would read it to us every year growing up. We would |
| 2:36.0 | set up our Christmas tree, usually the week of Thanksgiving, and then we would all sit around |
| 2:40.3 | the Christmas tree and start the Christmas Carol. And that was even when we were going to my |
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