Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Sean McDowell, professor of apologetics at Tauba School of Theology

Biola University.

And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Christian Ethics,

also at Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.

Today we have a guest on that I have been looking forward to talking to in person and for our audience to get to hear.

Her name is Ruth Graham. She's the author of nine books, including the best selling,

in every pew sits a broken heart and the award winning step into the

Bible. She has a passion to motivate people by God's grace and loving acceptance

to move from a place of woundedness to wholeness in Christ.

We're going to talk about a recent book, Forgiving My Father, Forgiving Myself, which is particularly

powerful because I know our audience will recognize her father's name as well, Billy Graham.

Ruth, thanks for taking the time to join us today.

Well, thank you, Sean, for having me. I really do appreciate it.

I was really honored when you reached out

and gave me the privilege of endorsing your book and I was just intrigued having a father

in the public light not as well known as your father but there's a lot in common there.

I thought, gosh, as I read this book,

you're so honest, you're so heartfelt showing respect to your father,

but he's human, like everybody everybody else had his faults.

How did you kind of muster up the courage or how did you approach a book like this

that's both respectful and vulnerable?

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