Welcome to Java with Julie. My name is Naomi, and I live in Pennsylvania, just south of Pittsburgh.

I listen to Java with Julie at double speed while walking with my four young children or nursing my two-month-old.

I listen because I love to learn about God's design for gender, sexuality, and intimacy, and I value conversations

about how best to love those who are wounded in complex ways.

So grab your Java or your chylate if you're a tea drinker like me, because it's time for

Java with Julie.

Hey friend, welcome to Java with Julie.

I'm Julie Slattery, and this podcast is an outreach of authentic intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's design for sexuality.

And that's what we're doing today, Hannah, right?

Thanks for being with me.

We're back. We are. We are doing this very exciting couple episodes, Julie. We are in the middle of a series about a book that just came out called God's Sex and Your Marriage. And whenever I have a book come out, I love to teach on what I've been writing. But I don't know how to do that. Was that somebody asking me questions?

That's my job, baby.

You do such a good job. We're doing it together.

Yeah, man, if you guys listen to last week's episode, you are starting to understand and realize why there's so much celebration, just that the team and authentic intimacy about this book release.

Because this truth,

this applying and understanding God's just design and goodness in sexuality and covenant love

applied to marriage is so exciting, Julie. Yeah, I'm thrilled to have this resource available

for couples who are like, hey, we're ready to really work on sexual intimacy in our marriage.

And this is not for the faint of heart.

We talked a little bit about that last week.

This is not a quick, hey, just do these three things and you're all good.

This is really digging into how are we even misunderstanding the purpose of sex within marriage and how do we

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