S5 20: Judgment and Mercy: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come with Meredith Lewanowicz
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for Ebenezer Scrooge to “face the facts” about his spiritual state and meet the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. My colleague Meredith joins me to explore this sobering yet necessary part of Scrooge’s journey and the transformative power of mercy triumphing over judgment. Even if you’re familiar with A Christmas Carol, you’ll find some fresh truths about Scrooge’s redemption (and ours!) in today’s conversation.
Meredith’s favorite adaptations of A Christmas Carol are A Christmas Carol (1951) with Alastair Sim, and the Broadway musical A Christmas Carol (1994) with music by Alan Menken.
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. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:32.7 | Okay, listeners, can you believe it? We are on the last ghost, the ghost of Christmas to come and the |
| 0:40.7 | ending of the Christmas Carol. I'm so glad for all of you who have chosen to read this with us, |
| 0:47.6 | the Christmas Carol, with the Strong Women podcast community. If you haven't, if you're just |
| 0:53.0 | tuning in for the first time, it's actually not too |
| 0:55.7 | late because the Christmas Carol is so short. You could pick it up and read it in a week, |
| 1:01.2 | and you could listen to all of our podcast episodes about it and just have the best time with it. |
| 1:06.3 | So go to colsoncenter.org board slash advent if you want to download our free resource that goes along |
| 1:15.6 | it's a reading guide that goes along with the Christmas Carol so you can still do that it's not |
| 1:20.4 | too late I also wanted to just ask you guys would you consider sharing these episodes with a friend |
| 1:26.3 | that helps us that helps them find us and these |
| 1:29.9 | wonderful conversations with these amazing women that we get to talk with each week if you don't |
| 1:35.0 | mind go share this with a friend and also rate us and review us on your favorite podcast app |
| 1:41.5 | okay so today i have a special guest with me, Meredith Levanovich. Meredith is a writer |
| 1:48.4 | and editor for the Colson Center and a good friend of mine. She loves books. She loves to talk about |
| 1:54.4 | books and I like to talk about books with her. And so I asked her, Meredith, would you please come on |
| 1:59.9 | and talk to me about this last |
| 2:01.4 | Christmas spirit? And she said, sure. She was totally game for it. So I'm really glad about |
| 2:06.8 | that. But one of the other things I want you to know about Meredith, you guys, is that all these |
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