Catherine Marshall

I basically started by looking at w- where I initially thought some of the real origins of this live, laugh, love culture were, and that was in the 1960s and '70s.

And I started with some big names, uh, women like Catherine Marshall, author of the beloved novel Christy, right, later adapted into a home film.

Put a pin in that.

I have a hilarious story about that.

And then we get this, he punishes the children and their children of the sins of the parent for the third and fourth generation.

I remember reading a book by Catherine Marshall, the late, great Catherine Marshall, and she wondered if the sins being punished to the second and third generation, if some of that was not necessarily the punishment of God, but just true.

If you think of things like child abuse, that it carries on from generation to generation.

A lot of things, the way that we treat our children because we were treated that way by our parents, a lot of those sins carry on from generation to generation.

And so, yes, it's about James Dobson's focus on the family.

The new book is about Janet Oakes' Love Comes Softly, Catherine Marshall's Christy.

It's about Hallmark movies and about altered state and the everyday lived religion that millions of women have participated in, Christian women and women who are not Christian who move in and out of some of these spaces.

They shop at Hobby Lobby, too.

So Hannah Whittle Smith was the author of a bestselling religious book in the 19th century.

And most readers will not have heard heard of her, some will have, but I did not expect for her to feature in this way in this book until I kept running up against her from writers in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.

Like, why are they so enamored of Hannah Whittlesmith? Writers like Catherine Marshall and Elizabeth Elliot and so many others.

And she was the author of this bestselling 19th century book, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life.

And so taken into ICU, they began to do all kinds of things and thought I needed immediate surgery, but went away today.

And so Wayne had always, my husband's Wayne, had always wanted me to read at that time, Catherine Marshall's book, Beyond Ourselves.

Well, I wouldn't read it because after all, I knew everything and she was a Presbyterian and I knew a lot more as someone out of the Westland.

Yeah.

So she does put it in its context.

It started in the 60s with Catherine Marshall, the author of Christie.

She kind of gives her story.

Elizabeth Elliot was in all that.

But she does talk about the three eras of her life.

and kind of how she influenced women and the purity culture that we've all, we're all trying to recover from right now.

But yeah, So, yeah, it was a Catherine Marshall.

She was influenced by one of those early books.

And what I saw is all of these women writing in the 60s, 70s.

Catherine Marshall is another one for people who like the novel Christy.

They were all pointing back to a 19th century figure, Hannah Whittlesmith, an evangelical holiness preacher.

And so I had to figure out why.