The Freedom You’ve Been Looking For with Jennie Allen and Francis Chan
The Jennie Allen Podcast
Jennie Allen
4.9 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Jennie sits down with longtime friend Francis Chan to talk about identity, discipleship, and what it really means to be loved by God.
Francis shares how, despite a painful childhood, God used the faithfulness of ordinary people to reshape his life. Together, they challenge the idea that impact happens on platforms, reminding us that real transformation happens in relationships.
They also tackle a deeper struggle many carry - knowing God loves us, but not fully believing it - and why experiencing that love is what actually leads to freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | No, I don't look back and dwell on my dad didn't love me. |
| 0:05.7 | You know, my mom died giving birth to me. |
| 0:08.8 | And I don't mean to belittle. |
| 0:11.3 | I just feel like we'd belittle the miracle of knowing him and what he can do. |
| 0:26.5 | All right. |
| 0:31.7 | Well, we are here with one of all of our favorite friends, Francis Chan. |
| 0:35.5 | It is so good to hang out for the next 45 minutes an hour. |
| 0:39.5 | Sweet Francis just, I told him, you know, hey, we'll be done for sure by noon. He was on his time zone. He thought I was about to make him talk for almost |
| 0:44.5 | three hours. And he was like, I mean, that's going to be long. But okay, Jenny. So I just am endeared |
| 0:50.0 | to you that you would sit here and talk. And everybody listening is like, you know, please talk for |
| 0:54.9 | three hours, Francis, please talk for three hours. And a little bit hurt that you don't want to talk |
| 1:00.0 | to me for three hours. I mean, dude, we could. It never is boring. Every time you and I talk, |
| 1:07.4 | it is never boring. And what we're going to talk about today, as everybody |
| 1:12.4 | knows, we're in the conversation around lies. And what's cool is right now, I mean, |
| 1:18.8 | in October, you have a book that came out that is about identity. It's about being the beloved |
| 1:27.3 | child of God. And so we're going to dig into that. |
| 1:29.6 | But before we do any of that, I actually want to start way high big picture. And someone just told me, |
| 1:37.0 | I did not know this, a part of your story, that you lost your mom, dad, and step parent, stepmother, stepfather, step mom, all when you were |
| 1:49.4 | young. Can you just tell us a little of your story and like where, not to dive into the deepest |
| 1:55.8 | part, but we're going there. No, totally. My mom died giving birth to me, actually. So in the hospital, she just |
| 2:04.8 | bled out and died. And then my dad didn't want me because he just felt like, well, you killed my wife, |
| 2:14.6 | gave me up for adoption. But my aunt and grandmother took me away before he could give me to |
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