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In the last episode, we talked about the tradwife movement. In this episode we move on to talk about what a homemaker actually is. 
Citing Edith Schaefer's book on the Hidden Art of Homemaking, we talk about the vocation of reminding people of their humanity, and their need for food and rest. We talk about all the various things that make us human. CS Lewis writes about how the easiest way to sin against someone is to start thinking of them as less than human. The world is constantly trying to do this. Homemaking is the vocation of reminding people of their humanity.
Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin both share some of their stories of how easily it is to be drawn into the tradwife movement, as opposed to their experience as homemakers.
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Gretchen Ronnevik
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What's the difference between a stay at home mom and a Tradwife? In this episode Gretchen Ronnevik and Katie Koplin, 2 women who have been stay at home moms, talk about the Tradwife movement, and all it contains.
The easiest place to begin this conversation is from the male counterpart, or the Alpha Male mindset, to see the female counterpart to the joint movement. They talk about what this movement looks like for men, where "Beta Males" are viewed as trash, and then switch to the counterpart aspects of the equally dehumanizing aspects of this for the females.
What starts out looking like a "good thing" turns "hardcore" as Christian values aren't hardcore enough in this movement to really take it as far as they'd like it to go. This movement elevates good things to gods, where our hope is placed in our own strength, and where the doctrine of vocation is replaced by roleplay.
We look at examples of Tradwives, how they are often not Christian, but held up as a Christian standard, and historically how this movement came about.
Show Notes:
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What’s New from 1517:
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Remembering Rod Rosenbladt
Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin
Available Now: Be Thou My Song by Kerri Tom
Last Chance: NWA Conference May 3rd-4th
More from the hosts:
Gretchen Ronnevik
Katie Koplin
 

Co-host, Katie Koplin has curated a gospel central devotional for moms, and it's coming out this next Tuesday. We talk about how she chose the various contributors, and the themes that arose as the submissions started to come in.
Learning our limitedness as mothers was one of the major themes, and how to hold hope and hard in the same room.
We talk about the hard and good together, and how sometimes it feels like you get punished for doing the right thing. There's no avoiding the suffering, there's just learning to walk through it.
We talk about dealing with fear as a mother, asking God for a guarentee that things will work out as we want, for a guarentee that they will be healthy and safe, and trusting God despite whatever could happen.
Show Notes:
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What’s New from 1517:
30 Minutes in the NT on Youtube
Remembering Rod Rosenbladt
Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin
Available Now: Be Thou My Song by Kerri Tom
Last Chance: NWA Conference May 3rd-4th
More from the hosts:
Gretchen Ronnevik
Katie Koplin
 

We have back on our dear friend, Sarah Crowder, as she talks about her contribution to the upcoming devotional "Encouragent to Motherhood." In her writing, she shares about her kids one by one, being diganosed with type 1 diabetes, and mothering in hospital rooms, where death is near.
She talks about the looming of the law when health issuses are life and death. As humans, we have what she calls a "default to death," which keeps bringing her back to baptism, and what Daniel Emery Price refers to as a "wet theology." We talk about the balm of baptism as we live in light of death. Come back to the water again and again.
We talk about allowing yourself grief in motherhood, and recognizing the humanity of motherhood. We don't have hope that everything will turn out ideal, but we have hope that Christ will be with us.
Show Notes:
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What’s New from 1517:
Remembering Rod Rosenbladt
New 1517 Academy Course: The Early Church: Christ, Controversies and Characters with Bruce Hillman
Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin
Available Now: Be Thou My Song by Kerri Tom
Here We Still Stand 2023 Videos are Available on YouTube
Last Chance: NWA Conference May 3rd-4th
More from the hosts:
Gretchen Ronnevik
Katie Koplin
 

This week we are interviewing our friend, Pastor Brad Gray about his book He's one of the special Baptists who publish articles and books with 1517. We talk about preaching the gospel, free from manipulation, and the hope for those who are discouraged. We ask him big questions about his book: Finding God in the Darkness.
We talk about our faith in the midst of suffering, questioning God, and what's going on in our faith in the midst of depression. He talks about why he wrote this book, and how to comfort those who are in dark places.
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Show Notes:
Support 1517
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What’s New from 1517:
Remembering Rod Rosenbladt
New 1517 Academy Course: The Early Church: Christ, Controversies and Characters with Bruce Hillman
Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin
Preorder: Be Thou My Song by Kerri Tom
Here We Still Stand 2023 Videos are Available on YouTube
Last Chance: NWA Conference May 3rd-4th
More from the hosts:
Gretchen Ronnevik
Katie Koplin
More from our guest:
Myth Became Fact in the Face of Suffering (Brad's 1517 Here We Still Stand video) Brad's book: Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pits of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment

This month's bonus episode we discuss the book "The Spirituality of the Cross" by Gene Veith. This is a great book to read during Lent, as is looks at the centrality of the cross in our spiritual life. Katie Koplin and Gretchen Ronnevik focus their discussion on the beginning of the book, where he talks about morality based spirituality, speculative based spirituality, and mysical spirituality, and how the spirituality of the cross differs from those other 3 approaches. 
While morals, intellectual speculation, and spiritual experiences are all good, centering our spirituality on them can lead to exploitive and manipulative practices.
We talk about how the definition of terms in this book is strongly from a Lutheran perspective, which is important because some of the words like "Evangelical" can have a multitude of definitions. From a historic perspective, at the time of the Reformation, Lutherans weren't called Lutherans, they were called Evangelical, as opposed to the Reformed who followed the teachings of John Calvin. Veith talks about how the term "Evangelical" is also used in many churches in Europe that hold a Lutheran theology and liturgy, which can be confusing to tourists visiting. Add to that, and the American definition of Evangelical has been seeping into Europe through missionaries.
We talk about how law and gospel distinctions play into our spiritual life
Show Notes:
Support 1517
1517 Podcasts
The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts
1517 on Youtube
What’s New from 1517:
Remembering Rod Rosenbladt
New 1517 Academy Course: The Early Church: Christ, Controversies and Characters with Bruce Hillman
Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin
Preorder: Be Thou My Song by Kerri Tom
Here We Still Stand 2023 Videos are Available on YouTube
Last Chance: NWA Conference May 3rd-4th
More from the hosts:
Gretchen Ronnevik
Katie KoplinBooks Discussed/Mentioned:
Spirituality of the Cross by Gene Veith The Ten Commandments for All God's Children (FatCat Book) "Free to Be" by James Nestigan