This summer we are sharing summer salad recipes, books for the grieving, bread baking thoughts for novices, what to read if you’re economically illiterate, Christian music worth buying, and an invite to a summertime challenge (fun run for the cure). Join us!
PS, click below to purchase the Magnesium Summer mentioned in the previous episode (so many of you have asked!)
I understand Rosaria has backtracked on gender pronoun usage, but I’m wondering how woke this new book is. My Christian book club read her hospitality book (published in 2018) and we were shocked at how Feminist and liberal she actually is…at least when she wrote this book. So many Christians recommended this book and we couldn’t believe how leftist many of her arguments were. She said her meth lab neighbor should not have gone to prison and that he was a victim and an addict even though this dude could’ve killed her entire neighborhood had his lab blow up. She didn’t believe he should have consequences for his sin (prison time) because he was an addict. She also said we should use preferred pronouns/names so as to not confuse children of same-sex or trans couples. She went on about the refugee crisis and how we should have open borders. She also talked about about how she was adamantly against Trump. Not sure what those sections had to do with hospitality. She twists scripture to fit her agenda and offers no grace or flexibility for those who do hospitality differently than she does. Also I cannot get over how “look how much time I give to others” she harps on her readers. She literally said having family time is “idolatry”. How this woman prioritizes time with her husband and adopted children is beyond me. I don’t know that I’d recommend it, but it sounds like she’s done a 180 and repented of this book? Can anyone verify for sure if her new book contains her liberal feminist ideology still?
I’m excited for Nancy Pearcey’s new book covering the war on masculinity this summer.
I read this book too- thank you for sharing a different view point- that’s given me a lot to think about! I did love that book, but found her hospitality lifestyle unattainable! I also remember her mentioning her white privilege which bothered me.
I loved so many parts. It’s not bad by any means, but I had a lot of questions and concerns about some of the ideology weaved throughout many parts of it. I’ll have to give her new book a try when it comes out this Fall as it sounds like it’s very different from this one. If you’re looking for hospitality books I really recommend: The Spiritually Vibrant Home: The Power of Messy Prayers, Loud Tables, and Open Doors by Don Everts. I’ve also heard The Lifegiving Home by Sally Clarkson is good. I haven’t read that one but that’s on my list and I’ve heard good things about it. 🙂
Wow. You got something totally different from this book than I did, and I’ve read it multiple times. Specifically, the tone that you got from this book was very different from the tone I got. I found nothing braggadocious, or judgmental re: other modes of hospitality, or Scripture-twisting at all. In all of her books, I have found her very gracious. Hmmm.
Hi there!
A lot of what you said here about the book in question is simply untrue. Rosaria is not woke, and none of her books have been. Neither is she a liberal feminist. However, she does address pronoun usage, and it’s a fantastic section of the upcoming book. You should read it!
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Hi! I did read it as I previously stated it and so did my book club. To clarify, the book I am referring to is her book on Radical Hospitality published in 2018. Maybe some people read it and skipped over these parts? Or they’ve forgotten or simply didn’t read these sections. I can give page numbers/quotes if you’d like. I can directly cite where she said she was against the “refugee crisis” and vouched for open borders, where she said she’d never vote Trump, where she said her meth lab neighbor should not have gone to prison, where she said we should use preferred pronouns, and where we she said family time is “idolatry”. These are direct quotes from the book. I’d just need to go through my notes from book club where I wrote these all down. I am at work currently. I loved many aspects of her book and there were some great suggestions, but there was so much in there that was not Biblical and stems from liberal feminist theology. If you don’t believe me or want page numbers, you can see reviews on Goodreads from plenty of Christians who had hesitation recommending this book to their church or Christian friends/family.
I read her book too, and found it a bit “braggy” as well. But I guess since it is a book based on hospitality and her experiencing how she executes it, I suppose it makes sense. It was intimidating from my perspective too. I’ve heard she has taken a stronger stand against trans ideology re: pronouns. I think more people in general are waking up.
Can someone pls help me find the Samuel Rutherford Booklet with quotes on grief. I hunted around Canon Press to no avail and same with my google searches. Thanks so much!!
Here’s a link!
The book is not quotes about grief, but it is often gifted to those who are grieving because it is so encouraging. Enjoy!
https://ccmbooks.org/bookstore/the-loveliness-of-christ/
My challenge will be daily Bible reading and prayer. I was going to say walking but that was a goal last summer/fall leading up to a big trip and I’ve started up again regularly (now that the sun is up at 5AM and it’s not freezing) so walking really wouldn’t be a challenge.
My challenge is to read for an hour every day, specifically all of the books my church Bible studies are going through and my long list of this years reads! Hopefully I get through a good amount of them. Thanks ladies for the challenge! Love your podcast, as always.
This sounds easyish but it really has been a problem for me and that’s getting up to the time my alarm is set for. It really affects all the things in my day and lately i’m skipping my morning routine, grabbing the fast breakfast for my kids and arriving late to morning commitments. (well this is normal no matter what time i wake). All these things are affected by the time i rise, especially if i’m getting up at the same time as kids. So simply I need to get up the first time my alarm goes off… we’ll at least until september! 🤣
I’m going to work on praying daily and focusing on prayer for my husband and my children. Also more for my church and church family
I’m going to work on praying daily and focusing on prayer for my husband and my children. Also more for my church and church family – this is my summer challenge
I’m going to work on praying for my friend’s prayer requests daily.
I love your recommends and made the mistake of listening while driving so I could not write down all the things to check out. So I’ll need to listen again with a note pad. I would love to recommend a list of your recommendations attached on show notes 😁.