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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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Professor French Tells What Gen Z Can Teach All of Us!
What happens when one of America's top legal minds steps back into the classroom—only to be schooled by Gen Z? New York Times columnist and Good Faith contributor David French joins Curtis Chang to reflect on what a year of teaching college students taught him about faith, over-parenting, and the future of American democracy. Together, they explore whether this rising generation is rejecting political tribalism in favor of ethical engagement—or simply afraid to speak up in polarized times. Could Gen Z's quiet shift reshape our fractured public square?
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0:00.0 | There are students who go to college and they have had zero freedom before college. |
0:07.5 | It wasn't a marginal increase of freedom. |
0:10.0 | Like for me, when I went to college, I had more freedom, obviously, than I lived at home. |
0:14.4 | But it wasn't this quantum difference. |
0:17.2 | But you're beginning to see this like quantum change from no freedom to sort of total freedom except with the constant pinging of the texts and the WhatsApp messages from the parents. |
0:26.5 | And so we need to be thinking hard about giving kids more agency earlier than we do now. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith |
0:52.3 | podcast is where friends who follow Jesus help each other make |
0:56.1 | sense of the world. And in the world right now, or at least in America, it's the end of the school |
1:02.7 | year. And so many students, parents, and teachers are trying to make sense of what happened in the |
1:09.4 | classroom this past year. Well, you know |
1:11.8 | who else spent their past year in a classroom? Our founding friend, David French, he was |
1:18.3 | Professor French at Lipscomb University, his alma mater. And for this conversation, I wanted to |
1:24.8 | hear what he learned from the experience and what it might mean for the rest of us. |
1:30.0 | So, Professor French, welcome to the Good Faith podcast. |
1:34.4 | Curtis, great to see you. |
1:37.7 | Before we get started substantively, David, what do you think of Professor French as your wrestling nickname? |
1:46.4 | Well, it's funny you should say that because when I was in Officer Basic at Fort Lee in 2006, my nickname was Professor. |
1:57.8 | And it was kind of funny. |
1:59.4 | Everyone adopted it because, you know, one of the first things we did when the new class came in, we were talking about like our history and I was older than almost everybody there. |
2:09.7 | And they're like, what's your story, old man? |
2:12.6 | You know, and I said, well, I did this and I taught at law school. |
2:16.2 | And then I decided I needed to join. |
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