798: From a Gay Designer in Hollywood to a Radical Follower of Christ: Becket Cook
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Becket’s story is absolutely incredible. He has one of those stories you hear from a distance and think, “this can’t be true.” But it is. Jesus is real and he is that powerful. Becket has an amazing story and he also has an amazing passion for an amazing savior. Becket shares his story in this podcast; he and Preston also dig into what it means to “leave homosexuality,” the controversy over gay identity (Becket is adamantly opposed to it), and what it was like hanging out with Katy Perry, Prince, Paris Hilton, and other Hollywood stars.
Becket spends much of his time in ministry speaking at churches, universities, and conferences helping believers (and non-believers) understand this issue biblically, theologically, culturally, and personally. Balancing grace and truth when teaching on this subject is of primary importance. His goal is to challenge the current cultural narrative about sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular by demonstrating through his personal testimony and biblical truths that, yes, homosexuality is still a sin, and that following Christ is infinitely more satisfying and joyous. He has lived all over the world in major cities such as Rome, Vienna, and Tokyo. Becket graduated from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in 2017 with a Master of Arts in Theology. Becket’s book, A Change of Affection: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Redemption, with a foreword by Francis Chan, published by Thomas Nelson, released July 30, 2019.
Connect with Becket Cook
Twitter | https://twitter.com/becketcook
Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/becketcook/?hl=en
Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/becket.cook
Support Preston
Support Preston by going to patreon.com
Connect with Preston
Twitter | @PrestonSprinkle
Instagram | @preston.sprinkle
Youtube | Preston Sprinkle
Check out his website prestonsprinkle.com
If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.0 | welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Ra. |
| 0:05.0 | Speaking of Theology in Ra, and speaking of support, |
| 0:08.0 | if you would like to support the show, |
| 0:10.0 | you can go to Patreon.com forward slash theology in the Ra, that's Patreon.com forward slash theology and raw. |
| 0:15.4 | Support the show for as little as five bucks a month. |
| 0:17.4 | If you have been blessed, challenged, angered, or made really, really happy by listening to this show and you just, for whatever reason, want to support the work that I'm doing at Theology and Ra, then I would gladly receive your support in exchange you get access to premium content like once a month |
| 0:36.4 | blogs and podcasts and other goodies that come your way through Patreon.com forward slash theology in the raw. Okay my guest on the show today is |
| 0:46.7 | Beckett Cook. I met Beckett, gosh what was it? I think about six years ago back in 2014, 2015 sometime and we only |
| 0:56.8 | spent a little bit of time together we were both speaking at a church in |
| 1:01.7 | San Francisco and we had dinner together with some friends and |
| 1:05.2 | and I haven't really kept up with Beckett over the last six years or so I was |
| 1:09.6 | really blown away that evening when I heard him speak, primarily just from his testimony. |
| 1:15.1 | His testimony is incredible. |
| 1:18.4 | It's just one of those stories that just, it just strengthens your faith. I mean, like if there is even an ounce of truth to this story |
| 1:28.7 | then I'm more excited to be a Christian. Now, you know, Beckett's story like anybody who has a story that involves |
| 1:38.6 | homosexuality and Christianity. Okay, let's just say if your story involves |
| 1:44.1 | includes homosexuality and Christianity, |
| 1:47.7 | then you're controversial. Okay, so let's just get that out in the air. |
| 1:52.0 | Now, Beckett's story is again controversial. We talk a lot |
| 1:56.2 | about that controversy and I would say it's the controversy that might surround Beckett's story has to do, I would say, with the |
| 2:08.5 | radicality of his conversion experience. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Theology in the Raw, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Theology in the Raw and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.