Telling the Truth about Christian Institutional Sin
Good Faith
Good Faith
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🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Joining David and Curtis this week is special guest Nancy French. In a departure from her normal work as a best selling author, Nancy has spent the last 2 years investigating cases of sexual abuse and institutional coverup at one of the nations largest Christian summer camps, Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Missouri. Going beyond mere reporting on what happened, our hosts help frame the sad situation at Kanakuk in the broader context of the calling we all have to first tell the truth about the institutions we engage with, but also to work toward their repentance and repair.
Show Notes:
-Frederick Buechner - Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale
-Nancy French (USA Today) - Survivors, ex-employees say Kanakuk Christian camp 'ministered' to its sexual predators
-Curtis Chang - The Southern Baptist Convention Sacrifices Congregants on the Altar of Power
-Check out Nancy French's investigative work at NancyFrench.com
-Sign up for David's French Press newsletter
-Follow Curtis' work at RedeemingBabel.org
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Curtis and I am excited to tell you about a new feature of the Good |
| 0:06.4 | Faith Podcast and it's called Camp Fire Stories. |
| 0:10.8 | Now, in a great campfire, everyone has the opportunity to share their stories and so in |
| 0:17.2 | campfire stories, we want to hear from you. |
| 0:20.3 | We want to hear a story about what you are doing along the themes of the Good Faith |
| 0:25.8 | Podcast, perhaps it's something about how you're living out your relationships with |
| 0:31.0 | political polarization, how you are trying to reflect the image of God in your institution |
| 0:36.3 | and organization, or what you're doing with your money or your vocation, anything that |
| 0:41.2 | has been sparked by the themes that we've covered here in the Good Faith Podcast is |
| 0:46.6 | fear game. |
| 0:47.6 | It doesn't matter if it's a big story, a small story, or something in between, as long |
| 0:52.0 | as it's a story about what you are doing in your life, we're not so much interested |
| 0:56.6 | in hearing just thoughts, we want to hear stories of doing. |
| 1:01.2 | So we'll put a link in the show notes where you can just click on it and then supply us |
| 1:05.9 | the basic outlines of your story of doing, of living out the themes of Good Faith Podcast |
| 1:11.8 | and we'll look at it and we may invite you to share that story on a Good Faith blog, |
| 1:18.2 | a social media, or perhaps even invite you to come on the Good Faith show yourself and |
| 1:23.4 | talk to me and share your story, like how cool would that be? |
| 1:26.6 | I'd love to hear from you, I'd love to talk with you. |
| 1:29.1 | So please consider joining the campfire by actually joining actively and sharing your |
| 1:35.1 | story with others gathered around the campfire, thanks. |
| 1:49.1 | Welcome to The Good Faith Podcast. |
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