Shiny, Not-So-Happy People (with David and Nancy French)

Good Faith

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Shiny Happy People, a new docuseries documenting the effects of the teachings of Bill Gothard on the Duggars, had the biggest debut of any documentary series ever produced by Amazon. In this episode of the Good Faith podcast, guest host Nancy French and “founding friend” David French discuss this popular series, the legacy of Bill Gothard, purity culture, and the true hope for those affected by this anti-Biblical ideology.

SHOW NOTES:

Shiny Happy People on Amazon Prime

‘Shiny Happy People,’ Fundamentalism and the Toxic Quest for Certainty by David French, New York Times; June 13, 2023.

‘They Aren’t Who You Think They Are:’ The inside story of how Kanakuk—one of America’s largest Christian camps—enabled horrific abuse by David French and Nancy French, The Dispatch; Mar 28, 2021

‘It was just a thing at Kanakuk’: Campers and staff say nudity was part of camp cultureBy Nancy French, Springfield News Leader, May 26, 2022

Survivors, ex-employees say Kanakuk Christian camp 'ministered' to its sexual predators, by Nancy French, USA Today, May 26, 2022

Nancy French’s Tweet Thread on Kanakuk Ties to Bill Gothard

Joe White Says Pete Newman’s Wife Should’ve Been His First Layer of Accountability [Deposition Video]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Nancy French. The Good Faith Podcast
0:23.0	is a production of redeeming babble and it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other
0:26.8	make sense of the world. You may have noticed I am not Curtis Chang who is the actual host of this
0:32.4	podcast. But I'm in a seat this week because he's away for this month and I'm thankful to be
0:37.4	joined by David French. Now Curtis calls David the founding friend of the Good Faith Podcast because
0:43.5	they started this before David went into the New York Times. But I just call David my husband. So
0:49.8	welcome David to the Good Faith Podcast. Hey, Nancy. Yeah, this is I've never been a part of the
0:55.8	podcast that you've hosted before. But we've been together on many podcasts before. So this
1:01.0	will be fun. I know this is fun. The last time I hosted I was hosting Curtis, which was the
1:06.6	little like having to do a project in front of your teacher. Yeah. So yeah, this is fun. So
1:13.2	welcome. And so you've got both Frenches today. And David and I as you may have heard before,
1:19.7	we love our TV. And so recently we watched a television series that we wanted to talk to
1:26.6	about today. And it was the documentary called shiny happy people. It's something you may have seen.
1:33.9	So name is on prime. It's centered on the Dugger family and the teachings of a guy named Bill
1:40.0	Gawthard. Now the Duggers, as you probably know, were on a reality TV show called 19 Kids in
1:47.0	County. And there were a lot of spin-offs. But their spiritual mentor, this Bill Gawthard,
1:52.8	it's less famous. Most people in the secular world at least have never heard of him. But he's far
1:58.9	more consequential, obviously than this reality TV phenomenon. And you may have seen this or
2:06.5	definitely heard people talking about it because this has been a blockbuster for Amazon Prime.
2:13.4	It has had the biggest debut of any documentary series ever produced by Amazon Studios. It
2:18.3	reached more viewers in the first nine days than any Amazon documentary series.
2:23.0	David, tell us a little about what this is about. Yeah, so this was a documentary, as you said,
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