S2 E3 | Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad

S2 E3 | Reclaiming Motherhood from a Culture Gone Mad

The Sexual Revolution promised equality for women, lifting up contraception and abortion as essential tools to even the playing field. A generation later, is that what we’ve inherited?

Samantha sits down with author Leah Jacobson to discuss the rotten fruits of the feminist tree to uncover what women really need for full flourishing as women in society, and why that means embracing our bodies rather than muting some of our greatest capabilities.

You can purchase Leah’s book Wholistic Feminism: Healing the Identity Crisis Caused by the Women’s Movement, connect on Instagram, or visit her website at http://www.leahajacobson.com/.

S2 E2 | The Real Cost of Hormonal Contraceptives with Grace Emily Stark

S2 E2 | The Real Cost of Hormonal Contraceptives with Grace Emily Stark

The Sexual Revolution promised equality for women, lifting up contraception and abortion as essential tools to even the playing field. A generation later, is that what we’ve inherited?

Samantha sits down with author Leah Jacobson to discuss the rotten fruits of the feminist tree to uncover what women really need for full flourishing as women in society, and why that means embracing our bodies rather than muting some of our greatest capabilities.

You can purchase Leah’s book Wholistic Feminism: Healing the Identity Crisis Caused by the Women’s Movement, connect on Instagram, or visit her website at http://www.leahajacobson.com/.

S2 E1 | How Feminism Denigrates the Female Body with Leah Jacobson

S2 E1 | How Feminism Denigrates the Female Body with Leah Jacobson

The Sexual Revolution promised equality for women, lifting up contraception and abortion as essential tools to even the playing field. A generation later, is that what we’ve inherited?

Samantha sits down with author Leah Jacobson to discuss the rotten fruits of the feminist tree to uncover what women really need for full flourishing as women in society, and why that means embracing our bodies rather than muting some of our greatest capabilities.

You can purchase Leah’s book Wholistic Feminism: Healing the Identity Crisis Caused by the Women’s Movement, connect on Instagram, or visit her website at http://www.leahajacobson.com/.

S1 E8 | What Does It Mean to Be Human?

S1 E8 | What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Over the course of this season, we’ve explored the science of changing our genetics, asking which characteristics we ought to change, and why. Who gets to decide? Left to our own devices, do we really understand what’s important about ourselves? If we use genetic editing to “improve” ourselves or our children, will it have the impact we think it will?

S1 E7 | Carrying the Cross of Suffering

S1 E7 | Carrying the Cross of Suffering

A life filled with suffering isn’t worth living. That’s what we’re told, right? That ending a life is a compassionate choice. As the Netherlands expand their program of euthanasia for children, we need to explore these assumptions that it’s okay to let suffering have the last word.

In this episode, author and speaker Mary Lenaburg shares her experience caring for her severely disable daughter Courtney, and what over 20 years of accompanying her taught her about bearing her cross with joy.

S1 E5 | Reimagining the Role of Disability in God's Kingdom

S1 E5 | Reimagining the Role of Disability in God's Kingdom

When we imagine that some people endure “special” kinds of suffering, we alienate one another. We leave people isolated when what we actually need is each other.

I wanted to explore something Mary shared in the last episode, about this lie that the lives of the disabled are “impossibly hard.” What is it like for families coping with disabilities? What are the solutions we offer them now? Is erasing the disability something they even want, or are they asking for something else?

S1 E1 | Using Genetic Editing for Human Enhancement

S1 E1 | Using Genetic Editing for Human Enhancement

This season on Brave New Us, we’re exploring the field of genetics, its human applications, and the ethical question that arise when we think about using this knowledge to alter the building blocks of who we are.

First up, we take a look at human enhancement. What are some of the ways this technology might be able to improve our capabilities or help us ensure that our children have particular characteristics, and why, just maybe, we ought to be cautious about doing so.