When a Child Dies...Calling It What It Is | Annie Downs
The 9941 Podcast
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This week Annie Downes and Granger discuss faith, ministry, and generational shifts in Christianity. Annie reflects on learning from Granger and navigating the flow of worship events. They highlight the challenge of reaching young people wrestling with faith and identity.
They explore cultural Christianity in America, where churchgoing can be a social norm rather than a deep conviction—contrasting it with other cultures. Granger shares how suffering strengthens faith and should be understood universally.
They note how younger generations, shaped by technology, approach faith differently—some even simplifying their lives to stay grounded. While external motivations may bring people to church, they emphasize that true faith is about a personal relationship with Jesus, not just habit or obligation.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's Kimberly Schlatman from Little Big Town. |
| 0:03.0 | And she had told a story on the episode about after her first husband died and laying in his closet. |
| 0:10.2 | And she's sobbing as she's telling us the story. |
| 0:12.6 | And she says, I've never told anybody any of this. |
| 0:15.4 | And then when I'm done recording, I realized I never hit record on her microphone. |
| 0:20.1 | And so we have none of it. And I am, |
| 0:23.3 | I'm like laying my hands on the machine. Jesus, I need you to do a miracle. Jesus, I need you to find |
| 0:28.5 | a recording. I cannot find. And it showed up. I mean, it showed up for our producer. But I said to my |
| 0:33.5 | manager that day, Kelly Heywood, I was like, I'm never doing a show by myself ever again, because I'd recorded it myself without an engineer. And I was like, that's the last one. |
| 0:41.4 | We never do it without an engineer because I can't think of everything. And I forget things like |
| 0:44.7 | hitting the guest's microphone. So you got, you did get it, though. Jesus answered your prayer. |
| 0:49.9 | Yes, the Lord. The Lord. I am not kidding you, the Lord. We're actually recording. We're recording right now. |
| 0:56.8 | So I think this podcast begins with you telling that story. |
| 1:00.9 | Bless Kimberly Schlatman's life. She was so good to me. |
| 1:04.3 | That's really good. Annie Downs, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm so glad to see you, Granger. I'm good. It's got to see you, too. I've learned so much for being here. I'm so glad to see you, Granger. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm good. |
| 1:12.0 | It's got to see you, too. |
| 1:13.1 | And I've learned so much from you. |
| 1:15.6 | And I believe we've actually only seen each other once in person. |
| 1:19.9 | Is that right? |
| 1:20.3 | In Florida. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.