Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing

director at Word on Fire. Today we share with you an interview with the editor of a new

Word on Fire book. The book is titled, With All Her Mind, a call to the intellectual

life and it features essays by Catholic women who offer a call to pursue what is too often

excluded from our picture of femininity, namely the intellectual life, full of practical

advice and personal testimonies and featuring a forward by celebrated scholar Tracy Rolland.

This collection opens readers to the endlessly unique ways for a woman to follow the first

and greatest commandment, to love God with all her soul, with all her heart and with

all her mind. The editor of this collection is Rachel Bowman and again today she's interviewed

by her own Haley Stewart who is the editing manager of Word on Fire Spark. So sit back and

enjoy this interview with Rachel Bowman about her new book, With All Her Mind.

Hello there, I'm Haley Stewart, the managing editor of Word on Fire Spark and I am so

excited to be joined by Rachel Bowman. Rachel is a mom of six, a writer, a speaker, her

family. You might recognize them from the show Meet the Bowmans from the Word on Fire

Institute and Rachel is also the editor of a brand new book from Word on Fire publishing

called With All Her Mind, a call to the intellectual life. So thanks, much for being here Rachel.

Thank you so much for having me and so excited. Thank you. Well, I'm jealous because you

already have a copy of the book and I'm still waiting. There it is. There it is. It's so exciting.

I'm just eagerly waiting for mine to arrive in my mailbox. But let's get started talking

about, um, I'm actually you're six kids. I think it's important for people to know that

two of those, your youngest are twins and they're just, are they one year old yet?

Yeah, they're 15 months old now. So they get me a little bit more. Yeah, so clearly you're

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