S5 35: How Do I Engage Culture with Confidence? with Brooke Colón and the Colson Fellows
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Take a peek at the Colson Fellows Program through three women who are in the middle of it! Brooke Colón, the Colson Fellows Director, gives us a glimpse at the Program and how it can transform your faith. Then, Martha and Grace, two current Colson Fellows-in-Training, share how the Program has challenged their thinking and strengthened their faith.
How Now Shall We Live? by Chuck Colson
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Knowing God by J.I. Packer
Lent is a time to reflect on our need for salvation, repent of our sins, and prepare to celebrate Christ’s resurrection with deep gratitude. Our team has created a free guide with weekly hymns, prayers, and artwork to help prepare your heart for Easter. Join the Strong Women community and download your free copy today at colsoncenter.org/lent.
Do you ever feel like culture is changing faster than you can keep up with? Like you’re unsure of how to live like a Christian in this time and place? There’s good news: You're not alone. Faithful cultural engagement isn’t about having all the answers to the latest issue being discussed on social media. It’s about WHO we are becoming, how we see the world, and, most importantly, how we live in the world as the people of God. Come and cultivate deep roots for a chaotic world at the next Lighthouse Voices event on April 15 at 7PM MT. John Stonestreet will be answering the question, “What does Christian faithfulness look like in a time of unprecedented cultural change?” He will walk through four pillars that can help us understand this moment and live in it with hope and purpose in Christ. Register to attend in-person at the Focus on the Family Welcome Center, or via livestream. This event is free, but space is limited, so register today at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse.
Mental illness and suicide rates have reached critical levels in our culture. As Christians, we have an opportunity to share the hope and healing of Christ with those who feel hopeless. That’s why the Colson Educators created Hope Always: How to be a Force for Life in a Culture of Suicide. In this free online course, Dr. Matthew Sleeth explores today's mental health challenges, highlights how Scripture speaks to sufferers, and provides practical guidance for how we can talk about suicide prevention in our families, churches, and schools. Sign up for Hope Always today and learn how to be a force for life in the places God has called you. You can sign up today at colsoneducators.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you guys, every year at this time during the season of Lent, the Strong Women podcast team and I come up with some way for us to mark this time as different as a community. |
| 0:15.2 | And this year, we're bringing you the songs of Lent. Lent is a time to reflect on our need for salvation, repent of our sins, |
| 0:24.8 | and prepare to celebrate Christ's resurrection with a deeper gratitude. This free guide that we've |
| 0:31.8 | created for you guys with weekly hymns, prayers, and artwork is intended to help you do just that, to reflect and |
| 0:42.0 | overflow with gratitude at the work that Christ has done, and to prepare your hearts for this |
| 0:47.6 | feast, the biggest feast of the year in the church year, which is Easter. |
| 0:52.3 | In a noisy world, these truth-filled hymns |
| 0:54.8 | can help turn your heart to Christ in continual repentance and faith. |
| 0:59.8 | Starting on March 5th, join me and the strong women community |
| 1:03.6 | as we tune our hearts to sing His praise with the songs of Lent. |
| 1:08.2 | Download your free copy today at colsoncenter.org forward slash lint. |
| 1:25.1 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites |
| 1:31.1 | and equips women to participate in his story. |
| 1:34.6 | We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it |
| 1:39.6 | means to be a woman and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. |
| 1:45.3 | I'm your host Sarah Stone Street. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 1:50.6 | Welcome back to the Strong Women Podcast. Today we're going to talk about the Colson Fellows |
| 1:55.6 | program. And if any of you have been listening for any amount of time, you know that I love the Colson |
| 2:02.0 | Fellows program. I went through it myself in 2017 and just was really impacted by it. It really |
| 2:10.0 | shaped me. It helped me articulate my faith better. It helped me engage better where God |
| 2:17.2 | has placed me. And it helped me with my kids |
| 2:20.4 | asking really tough questions. And so I just, I'm such a huge fan of the Colson Fellows Program. |
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