The Best of Strong Women: The Joy and Wonder of Male and Female with Abigail Favale

The Strong Women Podcast

Sarah Stonestreet

Christianity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

2.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’re taking a small break this summer to gear up for season six of the Strong Women podcast. During this break, we’ll be re-airing episodes we think you’ll enjoy!

Our world is so confused about what it means to be male or female. Some speak as if men and women are interchangeable, and others as if we’re totally different species. But God’s creation of men and women is bigger and better than these false extremes. This week, Dr. Abigail Favale joins me to talk about biblical sexuality, the goodness of our bodies, and the interdependence that God designed us to live out.

The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale

Pope John Paul II on the Theology of the Body

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman

Essays on Woman by Freda Mary Oben

The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center, which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them. Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to week two of our summer series, you guys. We are busy planning at the Strong
0:04.6	Women podcast for season six. So that's coming to you in August. In the meantime, I'm bringing
0:11.4	you some episodes that I want to make sure you didn't miss, or maybe you just want to listen to
0:16.2	again. But before I tell you about this week's episode, I want to just remind you that we're talking all things books and summer and strong women and episodes and all that on our strong women podcast community.
0:30.7	So if you're not a member already, come join us and join the conversation.
0:35.5	Go to Facebook and then go to Strong Women Podcast Community.
0:40.4	And you'll find all kinds of discussions going on there. Also, don't miss out on anything
0:45.3	that's happening with the Strong Women Podcast or the Colson Center and sign up for our email
0:51.6	journal. We do not overdo it, I promise. We send out one journal a month
0:56.7	with things that you don't want to miss. Okay, so we're talking about summer and books there as
1:03.6	well. So go to colsoncenter.org forward slash strong women to subscribe to our email list. So often when we talk about femininity and
1:14.9	masculinity and the difference between men and women in Christian circles, so often we go straight
1:21.5	to roles or as Abigail Favali, she's my guest today, Abigail Favali calls it a chore list.
1:29.4	We go straight to that instead of talking about the beauty of design.
1:34.3	And you guys, like, it just excites me because God creates differences for harmony.
1:41.3	He creates order out of things that should be chaos, right? He brings those things
1:46.9	together in harmony, and he delights in differences. And so we should delight in the differences as well.
1:55.2	Like being a man or being a woman, that is part of our design. And that is important and it's not an accident.
2:05.0	And so instead of jumping right to the roles or the chore list, let's think about the beauty
2:10.9	of design. That is what this whole conversation with Abigail Favali is all about. She wrote a book called Genesis of Gender that is one of
2:19.9	those books that just, you have to read it a couple times because it kind of blows your mind.
2:23.7	And she has a wonderful way of putting words together to describe and illustrate the big things
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