Motherhood vs. The Infertile Cult of Self-Expression
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy and April Pryor are joined by Annalisa Barraza, Holly Worley, and Jess Gonyea to discuss two topics surrounding motherhood and femininity, all through the Family Teams lens.
First they react to whether there's a place for women to "be" in the family, when compared to working outside the home. Our culture has put "self-expression" as the highest virtue, but can we as Christians really buy into that?
Next, they comment on the reality of a woman's biological clock (in reaction to a Brett Cooper video). Even in Christian circles, nobody is talking to young women about the reality of fertility, aging, and the process leading up to having kids, and it's creating a tragic epidemic of "unplanned childlessness".
These are the conversations we need to be having to point people back to Truth, Reality, and Christ in a world that's absolutely bent on distorting it all in order to do violence to the family as a vehicle for God's will.
On this episode, we talk about:
1:34 Does the "Christian right" need more of a vision for women than being a wife and mother?
5:34 Moms react...is there a place for women to "be" in a family setting?
20:23 The cultural lie that "self-expression" is the ultimate goal
22:48 The Proverbs 31 woman as a vision for mothers and wives
30:35 Brett Cooper on The Reality of a Woman's Biological Clock
40:54 The pill, society's view of children, and "babymoons"
47:40 Integrating your entire life
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| 0:00.0 | And that is that before the Industrial Revolution, the household was always an economic engine. |
| 0:04.5 | And the mother was always sort of in the center of that hub. And so the idea that she wouldn't |
| 0:10.1 | have intellectual challenges in the home didn't make any sense. Of course, she was constantly |
| 0:15.3 | challenged because she and her husband were a team trying to develop this economic engine. |
| 0:21.3 | Hi, welcome to the family team teams podcast. Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational |
| 0:27.3 | team on mission by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. |
| 0:32.9 | Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all things family. |
| 0:40.2 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the family team's podcast. So as you guys know, we are ping ponging |
| 0:45.7 | back and forth between conversations with fathers, conversations with mothers. And so |
| 0:50.4 | April and I have three ladies on the call with us today that we get to interact with in lots of different arenas of our lives. |
| 0:57.9 | So we're excited to have them. |
| 0:58.9 | We have Annalisa, who is a part of family teams. |
| 1:02.2 | She helps us out with all kinds of operational things. |
| 1:05.1 | And so she is zooming in from Savannah, Holly Worley, zooming in from Parker, Colorado. |
| 1:10.6 | Her husband, Mike, is a part of Integrated. |
| 1:14.1 | And so we've gotten to know them really well through that. And they also did an amazing job |
| 1:18.0 | doing a bunch of premarial counseling for our son, Jackson and his wife, Angel. So they're |
| 1:23.1 | dear friends of our family. And then Jess Gagnez, zoom in from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. And so |
| 1:30.8 | and Jess and Taylor, we've known for a long time. They came to the first family team's weekend in |
| 1:36.0 | Cincinnati and came to our house, which was awesome. And then we got to hang out with them through |
| 1:40.5 | Family Inc. as they have been launching their first businesses. And so, so excited to have you |
| 1:45.4 | guys all here. So what we do is I just like to grab a couple of kind of hot topics and, |
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