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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Transforming Loneliness: Faith Can Guide Us Through Turbulent Times

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.1 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this year, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned the public of the dangers of a "Loneliness Epidemic" sweeping across the United States. Martha sits down with the daughter of Evangelist Billy Graham & Author, Ruth Graham to discuss the loneliness crisis and how faith in Jesus Christ can mediate the issue.   Ruth talks about her new book Transforming Loneliness: Deepening Our Relationships with God and Others When We Feel Alone, which lays out advice for overcoming feelings of loneliness and despair.    Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome everybody. Welcome, everybody, to the Untold Story Podcast.

0:50.2

I'm Martha McCallum, and we have a really special edition today of the Untold Story podcast because we're joined by Ruth Graham, who is an author and has run her ministries

0:59.1

and she's the middle child of Billy and Ruth Graham. And Ruth, I'm just so grateful to have

1:05.0

you with us today to talk about your latest book, which is called Transforming Loneliness. So thank you so much for joining us today.

1:13.5

Well, thank you for having me, Martha. I do appreciate it. So, Ruth, if I may, I wanted to start

1:19.4

with something that our producer found when she was working on this segment. And because the topic

1:25.8

is loneliness, something that doesn't get talked about enough

1:31.3

and something that so many of us experience at different points in our lives and that can

1:37.9

leave us feeling as if the Lord is not with us or that we have to do something special in order to create that

1:46.2

connection. So our producer found this clip from your dad in 1987 in a sermon in Denver. And I'd like to

1:56.2

start by playing this clip if I may. Let's listen. And at last we hear from the cross.

2:02.9

Jesus on the cross dying for you and for me.

2:06.4

God laying on him all of our sins and our judgment and our hell,

2:10.7

which he took on that cross.

2:13.3

He says, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

2:17.7

In that terrible moment, something mysterious happened.

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