Parenting Without Panic in an LGBT-Affirming World with Rachel Gilson - SUMMER REPLAY

[upbeat music] You are listening to the Confronting Christianity podcast.

This is the first episode of season five, which is slightly shocking.

And I'm here with my best friend and co-work- well, fake coworker.

We're not really coworkers, but we sort of co-work quite a bit.

Rachel Gilson.

Rachel, if you've been listening to this show for a while, you probably heard me talk to Rachel before, but if you have not, and you have no idea who Rachel is, she is...

Well, I think I'm gonna say first, she is the author of Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next, which is probably my favorite book on Christian sexual ethics.

And if you haven't read it, you need to get it.

She also works for Cru, which is a missionary organization.

She serves on the leadership team for theological development and culture, so we expect her to know much about culture.

And she is most of the way through her PhD in theological ethics at-

Public theology

... public theology.

That's all right.

Wow, what is that even?

Uh, well, exactly.

[laughs] At Southeastern Theological Seminary.

But today we're gonna talk about her new and forthcoming book, which has a title not actually longer than the book itself, but like-

[upbeat music] You are listening to the Confronting Christianity podcast.

This is the first episode of season five, which is slightly shocking.

And I'm here with my best friend and co-work- well, fake coworker.

We're not really coworkers, but we sort of co-work quite a bit.

Rachel Gilson.

Rachel, if you've been listening to this show for a while, you probably heard me talk to Rachel before, but if you have not, and you have no idea who Rachel is, she is...

Well, I think I'm gonna say first, she is the author of Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next, which is probably my favorite book on Christian sexual ethics.

And if you haven't read it, you need to get it.

She also works for Cru, which is a missionary organization.

She serves on the leadership team for theological development and culture, so we expect her to know much about culture.

And she is most of the way through her PhD in theological ethics at-

Public theology

... public theology.

That's all right.

Wow, what is that even?

Uh, well, exactly.

[laughs] At Southeastern Theological Seminary.

But today we're gonna talk about her new and forthcoming book, which has a title not actually longer than the book itself, but like-