What is a Girl Worth? (with Rachael Denhollander)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Sean Mcdowell, Think Biblically, Christianity, Culture, Church, Religion & Spirituality, Biola, Talbot, Scott Rae

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the past few years, sexual misconduct among leaders has been exposed in various sectors of society, including Hollywood, the church and youth sports. One of the most egregious examples occurred in youth gymnastics, resulting in the conviction and prison sentence of Dr. Larry Nasser of multiple counts of sexual abuse and assault of young girls. Listen in as Scott and Sean interview Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to come forward and testify against Dr. Nasser, which sparked over 250 o...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:06.2	I'm your host Scott Ray, being a faculty and professor of Christian ethics at
0:10.3	Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.
0:13.8	Maghore, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School Theology
0:18.7	Biola University.
0:20.3	We are with Rachel Den Hollander today.
0:23.0	Our very special guests.
0:24.2	She's the author of a new book entitled,
0:26.8	What's a Girl Worth?
0:29.0	You may be familiar with her.
0:31.9	She is an attorney advocate, educator, but where you may be familiar with her is that she is the
0:39.0	she was the first woman to come forward with allegations of sexual assault against the Michigan State University
0:47.5	physician Dr Larry Nassar.
0:50.3	And after she came forward, it sort a tidal wave of over 250 other women who came forward
0:58.5	alleging similar types of sexual assault and mistreatment. So Rachel, I know this has been a kind of
1:06.5	it's been a wild few years for you since you came forward and so let me start with this. You were one of hundreds of young girls
1:16.6	aspiring to be a gymnast. You talk in your book about how you fell in love with a sport.
1:21.0	But as you mentioned in the book you found yourself
1:24.3	getting hurt frequently. Why were you getting hurt so much and when did you first
1:30.2	see Dr Larry Nassar and for how long a time period did you see him?
1:37.8	Yeah, you know gymnastics is just a very rigorous sport and so injuries are very common.
1:42.4	It's normal
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