Welcome to the Journey Women Podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Beelis. Life's a journey we were never meant to walk alone. We all need friends along the way. On the Journey Women Podcast, we'll chat with mentors about gracefully navigating the seasons and challenges we face on our journeys to glorify God.

Last week, we discussed creation and the rebellion of man. And today, we're digging deeper into the reality of our rebellion with Dr. Rebecca D. Young. Dr. D. Young has her PhD from the University of Notre Dame, and she's been teaching ethics and the history of ancient medieval philosophy at Calvin College for over 20 years.

Dr. D. Young has extensively researched the topic of sin, and I know you're going to love hearing from her today. Now, sin and rebellion might not seem like the most encouraging topics that we could choose to address, but I hope that you'll see in this conversation that as we grow in awareness of our brokenness, we only grow in our recognition and awe of God's grace to us despite our sin.

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I am so tempted to call you Dr. DeYoung, but Rebecca, welcome to the Journey Women Podcast.

Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be with you.

I am just so excited to have been connected with you at a distance VA your book that's just being re-released, glittering vices.

It's just been re-released in June, correct? Of last year? Such an interesting and convicting read.

I am so curious what it is that inspired you to dive deep into the topic of the vices. It wouldn't be my first pick. Let's put it that way.

It certainly wouldn't be mine either because if you start out sort of coming from a Calvinist tradition, the last thing you want to do is say, oh, and my specialization is sin.

What really happened to me was that I was reading through some texts by Thomas Aquinas on the virtues and the vices with my students.

And they said to me, wow, this is the most practical material we've read in our whole time in college.

And I thought, wow, you know, I felt the same way. I felt like there was diagnostic insight here that I was being taught about my own life in a way that I had never seen it clearly before.

But to have their experience resonate with my experience, I thought, huh, maybe there is some power here in these texts. And they said to me, you should write this up into a book. So I did.

Before we start to dig into the minutiae, tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do so that the listeners can get a feel for where you're coming from.

As I've already alluded to, I'm a college professor, I teach at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And I've been there for 20 plus years now teaching philosophy to undergraduates and researching topics like character development and virtue ethics, the history of philosophy.

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