Abigail Favale

And I think that Another point that a lot of people took issue with was basically the conflation of personality with moral virtue.

And essentially, this is Abigail Favale followed up the next day.

And of course, giving Louise all of the charity that she made a really interesting argument, right? So And the purpose of her going first was in order to sort of sprout these disagreements.

And it was it served that purpose in the most fruitful way.

Right.

So anyway, but Abigail Favale went the next morning and kicked things off.

And basically somebody asked her about that, what she thought about that.

And she said, well, you know, I think that the term personality and this is getting back down to the evolutionary psychology versus the Christian anthropology.

Now, welcome to another inspiring edition of Sound Insight with Dr. Tom Curran.

Well, welcome to the program, Dr. Abigail Favale.

And she is joining me today.

Are you joining me today from the Portland area or from the middle part of the United States? I know that you've been moving around a bit here.

And once there she comes becomes kind of trapped in a way by and begins to wrestle with memories because there's a version of her past that she's told herself and been told and this kind of other narrative of her past that begins to break through in ways that she doesn't expect or want necessarily so yeah memory is definitely a key theme

Well, what I found, one of the things that I found so attractive about your book, about this novel, Our Lady of the Sign Against, published by Ignatius Press, folks, and I'm going to have you go to Ignatius.com to be able to access the book.

And we're going to give out Abigail's sub stack as well over the course of the program.

So folks, don't worry, you'll be able to access more of her writings as we're talking today, is that when you discuss this reality of memory, you do so from the standpoint of a character that is sometimes, I guess, surprising.

I don't know if that's accurate, but that's the term I've heard for it lately.

And Matt Walsh had already come out with What is a Woman? Abigail Favale had written her Genesis of Gender.

Abigail Schreier had come out with the book Irreversible Damage.

There just seemed to be all these takes that were really trying to articulate just what was bad on a consequential level with transgender people.