Helen and Abigail discuss the ways that various common ideas about womanhood lead to real personal damage. The conversation covers everything from performative femininity to birth control to transgenderism.

Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer, professor, and speaker. She currently directs and teaches in the William Penn Honors Program, a Great Books curriculum at George Fox University. Abigail's essays and short stories have appeared in print and online for publications such as First Things, The Atlantic, Church Life, and Potomac Review. She has written regularly for Dappled Things, a Catholic literary magazine, and was awarded their J.F. Powers Prize for short fiction in 2017. A cradle evangelical, Abigail was received into the Catholic Church in 2014, and her conversion memoir, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion, traces her journey from postmodern feminism to Roman Catholicism. Abigail is available to speak on a range of topics, but her primary focus is articulating the beauty and wisdom of Catholic teaching on sexuality, gender, and the body. Abigail is wife to Michael, and mother to Julian, Margot, and Benedict.

Get full access to Roy House in Budapest at helenroy.substack.com/subscribe