Recovering Our Storytelling Superpower (with Nancy French)

Good Faith

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Curtis and Nancy French explore the power of storytelling in everyday life. Nancy, a professional storyteller and New York Times best-selling author, urges listeners to “read” the stories of their own lives – in order to see how the ultimate Author of their stories (God) has shaped their destinies. Curtis and Nancy also encourage people to inhabit other peoples’ stories and to interview family members, such as parents, to more clearly see the context of their “origin stories.”

SHOW NOTES:

Penzu online journal

Subscribe to Redeeming Babel and receive Nancy’s resource, “100 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before They Die”

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith Podcast
0:22.6	is a production of redeeming babble. And it's where friends who follow Jesus help each
0:28.4	other make sense of the world. And for this episode, we're going to be talking about a important
0:35.1	way that we make sense of the world. And that is through storytelling. That storytelling is in
0:42.1	many ways a superpower we have for sense-making. And to help us develop this power of storytelling is a
0:50.2	very good friend of mine, Nancy French. So Nancy, welcome back to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm so glad to
0:56.2	be back, Curtis. Well, Nancy is, I think, a superheroine of storytelling, I believe, because, well,
1:05.0	let me just talk about some of the ways that she's a storyteller. She has, she's a multiple New York
1:10.5	Times best-selling author. How many, how many, how many times is the multiple now, Nancy?
1:15.7	It's up to five. It's up to five. So for listeners, that's five more than New York Times best-selling
1:22.4	books than I have written. She's an investigative journalist who has broken a major story around
1:30.2	the Canaca camps. And most recently, she's been a live storyteller for the Moth, which is the nation's
1:36.7	leading live storytelling circuit. Nancy, do you have an upcoming storytelling event with Moth at
1:42.9	all coming up? I don't have any plan. I've done three and I'm still waiting for them to come me back.
1:47.9	All right. Well, we're going to, once we find out what that is, we'll let listeners know.
1:53.3	Nancy is also the director of communications for redeeming Babel. So she works closely with me
1:58.6	on Good Faith Podcast. And Nancy, would it be fair to say that we've been on a run of some
2:05.8	fairly heavy topics? Yes, you guys are always talking about death recently and war. And I'm not
2:13.5	here for that. You're not here for that. Okay. So we're not here for our topic on famine and
2:19.8	pestilence. No, not today. Okay. No, Nancy's here to help us talk about storytelling, which
2:27.6	is lighter in tone, but I would say no lighter in significance. And so to set this up, I want to
2:34.0	first explain why I think storytelling is so important to Good Faith and Good Faith listeners
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Good Faith, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Good Faith and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.