Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright on her grandfather Billy Graham and being a coach's wife

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright is an author, speaker, daughter of Anne Graham Lotz and granddaughter of Billy Graham. Her husband Steven is a high school football coach. She teaches a weekly women's Bible Study for University of North Carolina athletes and has shared God's word at numerous events around the country.

Her passion for leading children to Jesus and getting them into God’s Word compelled her to lead monthly missions’ chapels at her children’s school and teach middle school children at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Coaches Camp. Her latest book, "Jesus Followers," co-written with her mother Anne, released in October 2021 and is available now.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Rachel-Ruth about growing up the granddaughter of Billy Graham, her life as a coach's wife, her desire to teach God's word to athletes, and the legacy she hopes to pass on to the next generation.

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1:55.2	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.
1:59.0	Here's your host, former ESPN producer Jason Romano.
2:02.0	Welcome, everyone, to the show. I am Jason.
2:06.8	This is Sports Spectrums podcast, the intersection of sports and faith. We got a great conversation today with Rachel Ruth Lotz-Ryke.
2:11.9	She has a long name, but she's got an amazing story and a great legacy.
2:16.0	See, Rachel is the granddaughter of Billy Graham and the daughter of Anne Graham Lott, Billy Graham's daughter.
2:23.1	And this is really a cool conversation because initially when I heard that Rachel might be available, I was trying to think, okay, what would be the connection to talk to her other than just me being curious about sort of growing up in the Billy Graham family.
2:37.5	She calls her grandfather Daddy Bill, which I thought was really cool.
2:42.0	But I'm curious on that end to just talk to people about their journeys and about their
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