About this episode

Courtney Pray Duke shares her transformative journey of faith and resilience after losing her husband at a young age.

What happens when the person you've loved since childhood is suddenly gone — and you're left at 29 with three small children and no idea how to be an adult without them? Courtney Pray Duke doesn't answer that question with easy comfort. She answers it with her life. Widowed after her husband Andrew was killed in a cycling accident, Courtney walked through the kind of loss that rewrites everything — and came out the other side not unscathed, but transformed. In this episode, Courtney and Bri...

People in this episode

Host: Brian D. Smith

Guest: Courtney Pray Duke

Topics covered

• grief
• faith
• loss
• transformation
• parenting
• widowhood

Keywords

• grief
• faith
• widow
• loss
• transformation
• parenting
• cycling accident

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