Hi everyone this is Heidi St. John and you have found me right here at the intersection of faith and culture this is the off-the-bench podcast and today I'm going to be hitting some of the headlines and trying to encourage you guys to go check out some really awesome Amazon reviews from my books. You guys are going to love this. Stick around, I think you're for tuning in today. It's always fun for me to read your questions as they come in and today.

And today's no different.

I'm going to be answering a couple of listener questions,

but before I do that, I thought I would read some reviews too.

So I've been sort of teasing that I would do this for a long time and I keep forgetting, but I thought, you know, this is. of put your opinions out there and I know a lot of you can relate to this right you share

something that you know this is what you think and so you share it on

Instagram or social media or whatever you know whatever platform you choose to share it on and

then people come at you right and so anytime you put yourself

out there you should expect you know criticism when I started to run for Congress

the very first night that I did that we had trans activists show up at the

homeschool resource center and they were holding flags and and signs about how I

hate people and of course none of that's true but sometimes you have to sit back and laugh and that's sort of what I

feel like doing every time I read reviews on Amazon so I want to read to you some of my

favorites from my book becoming mom-strong how to fight with all that's in you for your family

and your faith that book came out in 2017 and it really is my story of finding healing and sort of finding my way as a mother and it's a story of

redemption it's a story of why I think it's so important that we train our

children in righteousness and talk to our kids

very openly and honestly about what's happening in the culture.

And so that book was years and years in the making and I was really happy to get it out there finally and I love working with Tindale.

I've been working with them for a long time.

But this is, these are great, you guys are going to love this.

So some guy who won't say who he is, the initials, A N YP, so I don't know what that means, but this was the review that was left on October 25th of 2022.

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