Call Your Mom!

Sit down with me as I chat with Suzanne Venker, life coach and author of The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – and Men Can't Say (cowritten with her late, great aunt, Phyllis Schlafly). In this episode, we discuss integrity, femininity, polarity, and the forgotten dignity of women’s worlds.

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“Homemaking is a daily battle for self-governance in an increasingly hostile world.”

So says Lane Scott, mother of many, businesswoman, and PhD in political philosophy. From where do these hostilities arise? How do we face them head on? How do we build a world more conducive to homemaking than the current one, beyond the ideological capture of traditionally helpful institutions, the unavoidable antinatal propagandizing, and atomization in general?

In this episode, we explore some of the answers Lane has to offer: self-government, sisterhood, and more. You don’t want to miss this one.

As ever, remember to like, comment, subscribe to this episode on all platforms—and share with your friends!

Happy New year! xo-Helen

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Dear listeners, I heard you! Per your vehement requests…

Author and Catholic matriarch, the lovely Leila Lawler, joins this week to gently remind us that the work of homemaking is indeed work—work that we can, in fact, be good at!

Find her on Twitter here, and buy her beautiful set of books (great for display) here.

As always, don’t forget to share, subscribe, and like this episode. Chat soon!

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Faith Moore is back!

This time to chat about her recently released novel, Christmas Karol.

Faith Moore is a freelance writer and editor who runs The Story Club. She quit her job as an elementary school teacher back in 2014 so she could have her son, and never looked back. She's now a stay-at-home mom to two wonderful boys whose writing has been published in The American Mind, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The Federalist, and more. Her book, Saving Cinderella, has nearly 50 five-star reviews on Amazon.

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+JMJ+

Emma Waters joins the pod to respond to current female stereotypes with characters from Scripture.

Emma Waters is a Research Associate for the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion and Family at The Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on marriage and family, sex and gender, and assisted reproductive technology policy.

Waters is also a Visiting Fellow with Independent Women’s Forum and a monthly contributor with World magazine.

Prior to this, she worked as the Coalitions Manager of American Moment and periodically cohosted their podcast, Moment of Truth. Previously, she worked as a Research Intern with the Institute for Family Studies and a Research Consultant for the Realignment Podcast. In 2021, she won the American Enterprise Institutes’ Young Scholars Award where she wrote and published an in-depth paper on child support policy in the state of Tennessee, including qualitative interviews with 25 nonresident fathers. 

Her work may be found in Fox News, Newsweek, RealClear Policy, RealClear Health, The Federalist, the Institute for Family Studies, Problematic Women podcast, The American Conservative, The American Mind, The Daily Signal, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, and more. She graduated Valedictorian of Lee University with a double major in Political Science and Biblical & Theological Studies. 

Waters lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and their daughter. You can find her on Twitter @emlwaters.

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+JMJ+

Audience favorite Tiger Lily returns to share happy, healthy home birth stories. 

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Stephanie Winn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Portland, Oregon. She runs the You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist podcast and produced the documentary “No Way Back: The Reality of Gender Affirming Care,” formerly titled “Affirmation Generation”.

 

Follow her on Twitter, YouTube, and Locals at @sometherapist.

 

http://nowaybackfilm.com/

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“Step by step, I retreated from God and went forth to meet the world, the flesh, and the devil. . . . I’d join the devil himself. . . . There is no doubt that I traveled with him at my side and that he extorted a great price for his company.”

 

This is how Bella Dodd (1904–69) described her long battle with atheistic communism, an ideology her Church calls a “satanic scourge.” She later described it as a “school of darkness,” a school of “hate,” a school for which she was a master organizer and infiltrator of every organization—public, private, and even ecclesiastical.

 

Bella Dodd courageously left the Communist Party and its diabolical machinations. Her former communist affiliates then smeared her with eerily familiar epithets to modern ears, dubbing her everything from a “fascist” to a “racist.” Some things never change.

 

One thing that changed, however, was Bella Dodd. The man who helped pull her from the pit? A priest. A priest by the name of Fulton Sheen. Bella Dodd’s story thereafter changed dramatically from one of seduction by the devil to redemption through Christ. She dedicated the remainder of her life to a special penance: warning the world of the evil of communism and its plans.

 

https://a.co/d/9Uo8hN8

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Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph.D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School in the summer of 2016, and is the founder of the Social Research academic area, where she is an Associate Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Ave Maria University. Her primary areas of research include economics of education and religion, family studies and demography, Catholic social thought and political economy. Dr. Pakaluk is the 2015 recipient of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award, a prize given for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.”

Pakaluk did her doctoral work at Harvard University under Caroline Hoxby, David Cutler, and 2016 Nobel-laureate Oliver Hart. Her dissertation, “Essays in Applied Microeconomics”, examined the relationship between religious ‘fit' and educational outcomes, the role of parental effort in observed peer effects and school quality, and theoretical aspects of the contraceptive revolution as regards twentieth century demographic trends.   

Beyond her formal training in economics, Dr. Pakaluk studied Catholic social thought under the mentorship of F. Russell Hittinger, and various aspects of Thomistic thought with Steven A. Long. She is a widely-admired writer and sought-after speaker on matters of culture, gender, social science, the vocation of women, and the work of Edith Stein. She lives in Maryland with her husband Michael Pakaluk and eight children.
 
Read Edith Stein here:
 
Essays On Woman (The Collected Works of Edith Stein) (English and German Edition) https://a.co/d/7IHdJZY
 
Edith Stein: The Philosophical Background https://a.co/d/h8F3cIA

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It's been three years since the rolling social, medical, and political revolution sparked by the coronavirus began. Alex Gutentag was a special needs teacher who began writing about the inconsistencies and outright lies peddled by bureaucrats during the pandemic. As she kept writing, her work gained national attention for its clarity, incisiveness, and fearless dedication to the truth. She is now a columnist at Tablet magazine as well as Compact. Follow her on Twitter for more.

 

https://twitter.com/galexybrane

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