Jennifer Knapp on Music, God, and Speaking Her Truth

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

When Jennifer Knapp broke into Christian music in the 90s, we’d never heard anyone quite like her before. A soulful voice with lyrics to match, Jennifer took the CCM scene by storm—until she stepped out of the spotlight just a few years into her career, after an unrelenting scheduled left her body exhausted and her creative well drained. After a seven-year hiatus, Jennifer came back in full force with a powerful, courageous confession: she is gay and had been in a relationship with a woman since 2002. With unapologetic honesty, Jennifer has kept exploring her faith publicly in a memoir called Facing the Music, and even started an organization called Inside Out Faith, which advocates for the affirmation of our LGBTQ brothers and sisters in our faith communities. Today she and Jen talk about how she found faith in her college years and started weaving it into her music, and after she returned from her extended break—where she engaged in a fight for her own belovedness and belonging—she is now helping others find theirs.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey guys, Jen Hatmaker is here, your host of the For the Love Podcast.
0:24.9	I'm so glad you're here today, welcome to the show.
0:28.1	We are in a series now called For the Love of Music, which is a series you guys have asked
0:33.2	for many times and I'm so glad that you did because I actually love talking to these artists
0:39.0	to help us tap into emotions we don't know we have or we have blocked or just help us
0:44.2	pour it all out.
0:45.4	There's just to me no more cathartic experience than music.
0:50.0	It's just such a gift to the world and I cannot tell you how glad I am that you are here
0:55.7	today.
0:56.8	You are going to be so happy that you are listening to this podcast.
0:59.7	My next guest is a real force.
1:02.4	I mean, honestly, of talent and of courage and wait until you hear the interview of wisdom
1:08.8	and depth.
1:10.2	She is one heck of an artist.
1:12.0	She is a beautiful writer.
1:14.4	She has a really important story and if you don't already know her, I'm so excited that
1:19.3	you are about to get to know her better.
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