Living Out Podcast

Featured Episode: Isn’t the Christian Sexual Ethic Harmful and Repressive? (Explore Questions #2)

February 08, 2024 Living Out
Living Out Podcast
Featured Episode: Isn’t the Christian Sexual Ethic Harmful and Repressive? (Explore Questions #2)
Show Notes

While we work on our next series, we thought we'd take the opportunity to highlight a couple of episodes from the vault. In our second series, we took on some of the most common questions we get asked about faith and sexuality, including this one: isn't the Christian sexual ethic harmful and repressive?

In the first half of the show we explore ways in which Christians and churches have sadly harmed people in the areas of sex and sexuality. We talk about how silence has made it hard for people to feel safe and understood; how churches have sometimes created cultures of shame; and we discuss the damaging legacy of conversion therapy.

In the second half, we push back on the claim that the pattern for sexuality laid out in the Bible is harmful, and we share our own experiences of the Christian sexual ethic as life-giving. Oh, and you can step back in time and find out what we were all watching on TV!

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