854: Singleness and Celibacy as Vocation
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 1 April 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Humans can live without sex, but we can’t live without love, intimacy, and community. So where does this leave Christian who are gay, who are also pursuing celibacy as a vocation? Pieter Valk helps us think through this question on a rich, theological, and practical level.
Pieter graduated from Vanderbilt University with Highest Honors in Chemistry in 2013. After graduating, Pieter studied at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary for a year with a focus on Lay Leadership and Culture-making.
Pieter is the founder and director of Equip Ministries, a Nashville based organization created to help churches become places where LGBT+ Christians could belong and thrive according to a traditional sexual ethic. See more here: https://equipyourcommunity.org
One of the most interesting projects Pieter is involved in is the Nashville Family of Brothers (https://familyofbrothers.org), a monastic-like community of Christian men devoted to pursuing celibacy together.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. I have on the show today |
| 0:04.9 | Peter Volk, who is the president and founder of Equip Ministries. Equip is a ministry that is |
| 0:12.3 | designed to help churches become places where LGBT plus Christians can be long and thrive |
| 0:19.2 | according to a traditional sexual ethic. Peter is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. |
| 0:25.4 | He graduated the highest honors in chemistry. He also did some theological studies at |
| 0:29.6 | Gordon Conwell, theological seminary. He's a licensed counselor, a super, super smart dude, |
| 0:36.4 | and is doing great, great work through this ministry equip, which is based in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:42.2 | We talk about a lot of stuff in this podcast related to sexuality and singleness and even marriage |
| 0:50.9 | and this really fascinating community of brothers who he is living with called the Nashville family |
| 1:01.0 | of brothers. It's kind of like a Protestant-ish, monastic-ish community of people who are called |
| 1:09.8 | to vocational singleness. It's really fascinating what they have going on here. I'm excited for |
| 1:15.3 | you to engage this conversation and I do encourage you to check out Peter's ministry equip and the |
| 1:21.5 | Nashville family of brothers. There will be notes in the links in the show notes. If you would like |
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| 2:07.5 | time, my good friend, Peter Volk. |
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