At a Glance
In the fight to end abortion, changing policies is necessary, but it falls woefully short of solving the problem. Today, we have a culture that worships sex, and unless this changes, abortion will be an inevitable consequence of this lifestyle. To end abortion, we need to shift our target upstream to the root lies behind this worship, specifically to the lies surrounding what it means to be human and God’s design for the sexes and family. For the discussion, our friend Naomi Smith joins us in unpacking each of these lies. Ideas have consequences, and right now, our culture needs better ideas that will not lead to abortion.
Special Guest: Naomi Smith
Homemaker. Cultureshifter. Jesus Chaser.
From dance major to radical Jesus follower and single campus minister, then to wife and mom, Naomi Bloom Smith journeys down the road with God distilling life lessons along the way. She does not pretend to have a corner on the market of how to do motherhood “right”. She only knows that her sojourn as a mom has brought out colors of her own heart that she never knew were there. She also discovered that God’s design for home is brilliance shrouded in normalcy. She realizes her radical love for Jesus only deepens as she slows down enough to truly stop for her son in his first few years.
Resources
- Find a local pregnancy resource center to get support with pregnancy decisions.
- Check out DNA’s podcast episode “Beauty: Abortion’s Antidote with Sami Parker.”
What You'll Hear
Using the link above, you can read the transcript or listen along while highlighted text follows the podcast audio.
"If we’re going to see a change in the culture around the issues of marriage, sex, procreation, human dignity – it’s got to start in the Church."
Scott Allen (38:42)
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Go Deeper
Home Inspired: A Look at the Micro-Nation of Home for New Moms
Naomi Bloom’s is an amazing life journey. From dance major to radical Jesus follower to single campus minister to wife to mom, Naomi Bloom travels down the road with God distilling life lessons along the way. She does not pretend to have a corner on the market of how to do motherhood “right.” She only knows that her sojourn as a mom has brought out colors of her own heart that she never knew were there.
She also discovers that His design for home is brilliance shrouded in normalcy. She realizes the path of love goes low and her radical love for Jesus only deepens as she slows down enough to truly stop for her son and his first few years. Home Inspired will lead you to think through your own journey imparting grace and vision for your season.
The Grand Design
DNA’s Grand Design course will surprise and delight you. Many participants find they are engaging elements of worldview and the biblical narrative in ways they never have before. Their self-understanding has improved, as they realize what it means to be transcendently and biologically male or female. This has breathed fresh life and purpose into areas that previously felt mundane and unimportant, and their family relationships have improved. It’s time that you discovered the Grand Design.
Take your first step by starting our free course today!
The Grand Design: Rediscovering Male and Female as the Image of God
By Darrow Miller
“Darrow offers a healing biblical vision where men and women reflect the relationship within the Trinity: unity without uniformity and diversity without superiority.” – Nancy Pearcey, Professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University, author of Love Thy Body and The Toxic War on Masculinity
“Rich, timely, wide ranging, provocative, and wise, Miller’s The Grand Design is a book to be read slowly, pondered, and discussed.” – Os Guinness, Author of The Magna Carta of Humanity
Throughout the ages, cultures have pivoted between two understandings of the sexes.
Men and women are equal,
and therefore they are the same – interchangeable.
or
Men and women are different,
and the differences are exploited to falsely claim that some people are superior to others.
But what if there is a third option? What if a true biblical understanding, rooted in the Trinity, provides a foundation and vision for the sexes, where unity and equality is possible without uniformity, and difference and diversity between men and women is celebrated without superiority? In an age where views about men and women have divided the church and the culture, The Grand Design offers an opportunity for everyone to discover with fresh insight all that it means to be made in the image of God, male and female.
