Loving Young People | Rachel Gardner
Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud
Great Lakes Outreach
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Gardner shot to prominence as Founder of the Romance Academy on the BBC. She is part of the Youthscape team and has always been a passionate advocate for youth. Over the last few years she has planted a church in Blackburn with her husband Jason, and their two adopted children, and shares lovely stories of messy transformation there. She’s a great communicator, has written a number of books, and is pure gold.
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Go to youthscape.co.uk/research to download all the latest interesting pieces of research into how young people are hearing and responding to the Gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | There is not just violence, but there is respect of violence because those that shout loudest and hit hardest, |
| 0:07.0 | they're the ones that get their way. And so the way of Jesus is an interesting thing to start talking about in a community where vulnerability is feared. |
| 0:17.0 | And if you don't know that there is a God that's got you and a community who you can learn to trust, |
| 0:23.4 | how do you live differently? |
| 0:25.9 | How do you stop that bit of illegal work on the side that kind of pays the bill? |
| 0:29.8 | I'm learning huge amounts of what it looks like for the kingdom of God to come |
| 0:33.7 | and for peace and justice to roll like streams in these streets. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. So good to be back for another fantastic |
| 0:45.5 | week. I know you're going to enjoy this one. Listen, I think many of us just had enough of being |
| 0:50.1 | relentlessly bombarded by negativity in the press that makes us more anxious and cynical and |
| 0:54.4 | depressed and what we need is to hear great news and we have got the best news in the world and |
| 1:00.8 | we've got someone who is extremely good at living and embodying and sharing this great news that |
| 1:08.2 | we've got so massive welcome to rachel gardner. Hi, Rachel. Hi, Simon. |
| 1:13.4 | That is such a lovely intro. Thank you. Well, it's great to have you. So Rachel and I are not sure how |
| 1:18.8 | far we go back, but she's married to Jason, who I was at university with. So that's, well, we are at |
| 1:23.8 | university, I know almost 30 years ago at Loughborough and I think, Rachel, |
| 1:29.0 | I probably saw you first on BBC with your, with that television program you did, no sex please |
| 1:33.4 | with with teenagers. |
| 1:34.4 | So that was back in about 2005 maybe. |
| 1:38.6 | You've interviewed me actually at Spring Harvest and so it's nice for me doing the interviewing |
| 1:43.8 | this time. I'll give you a less |
| 1:46.0 | grilled time maybe that you gave me. No, only joking. And Youthscape is a big part of your life and |
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