True Womanhood for Newbies

Oct. 10, 2014 Mary Kassian

Are you new to the True Woman Movement? Want to know why it exists and what it's all about? Then this session is for you! Mary will throw away cookie-cutter notions of what true womanhood looks like. She'll cover the basics of God's good, wise, and wonderful design; explore how popular culture actively resists it; and talk about why it's important that you wrestle with the practical question of what it means to be a woman.

Transcript

Mary Kassian: We're going to be really casual here, which will be fun. If you want to kind of tuck in even closer, that's good. I'm just going to walk around and look at you.

If you have questions, we do want to get them on mic. You can put your hand up and we'll have somebody run and get your question, so we'll have some interaction here as well.

Let me start by telling you . . . you heard this morning that in my family of origin I have five brothers, and I'm the only girl-so six of us kids, and I lived to tell about it. Here's how the story goes: My mom and dad are German, and they went through the war in Germany.

Two of my siblings were born in Germany, and then they emigrated to Canada. So brother #1 was born, brother #2 was …

About the Speaker

Mary Kassian

Mary Kassian

Mary Kassian is an award-winning author, an internationally renowned speaker, and a frequent guest on Revive Our Hearts. She has written more than a dozen books and Bible studies including Conversation Peace and The Right Kind of Strong. Mary and her husband, Brent, have three grown sons and make their home in Alberta, Canada.