Ghosted: An American Story (with Nancy French)

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5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Host Curtis Chang sits down for a gripping conversation with author and frequent Good Faith guest Nancy French to discuss her compelling new memoir "Ghosted: An American Story." Nancy opens up about wrestling with dark family and church secrets, shedding light on the complexities of transracial adoption and the challenges of losing one's community. She explores the power of being truly known and finding resilience in an unexpected romance that would also show her the enduring hope found in the cross of Jesus.

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast, I'm your host Curtis Chang and the Good Faith Podcast is a production of Redeeming
0:24.0	Babel and it's where friends help each other make sense of the world as they
0:28.8	follow Jesus together and my dear friend Nancy French joins me today to talk about her new memoir,
0:35.0	ghosted. But before we get to Nancy, I want to remind everyone to stick around to the end of the
0:40.1	episode when I will read a listener review and if you want to hear your
0:44.9	review read on the episode of good faith just rate and review us where you get
0:50.0	your podcast so Nancy welcome back I think this is a your third time, fourth time, do we have to get a jacket for you now as a four or
0:59.7	five timer good faith podcast? I need a jacket I'd rather have a sash or something.
1:04.1	I don't think I've got a sash for you.
1:06.5	A crown.
1:08.6	Well, listeners will know that Nancy and I
1:10.4	are longtime friends and collaborators.
1:13.0	Nancy was a really helpful initial editor for me
1:16.5	on the anxiety opportunity book.
1:18.6	She's been a voice and a presence on the after party
1:22.2	video curriculum, and then she's a co-author with me on the after-party
1:25.0	book that is out now that helps Christians move
1:29.7	towards better Christian politics.
1:31.4	And while she's doing all that,
1:32.8	she's also an investigative journalist
1:34.9	breaking the news of sex abuse
1:36.4	at America's largest Christian camp.
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