Hey friends, welcome to the Think Vivliki podcast. I'm your host Sean McDowell, and today we've got a bonus episode for you.

Now why would we have a bonus episode today? Well we're sitting around as a team thinking about how

we might encourage Christians to better engage others during Pride Month.

So what we wanted to do is post a conversation that I had a number of months ago that's never been

posted here on this channel on my YouTube channel with the lady by the name of Ariel

Scarcella. Now she described herself to me in this conversation as the OG or original

lesbian youtuber she's been creating content for over a dozen years.

Now the reality is, probably a lot of her followers would find my stuff offensive

and many of the followers here on the ThinkPiblically podcast might find her stuff offensive.

But I noticed that she saw things in the world

very differently than I did.

And I decided to reach out to her and said,

hey, would you be willing to have a conversation?

Full disclosure. I'm a Christian professor and

apologist at a Christian university called Biola. She said sure and for about

45 minutes I just got to ask her questions about her life, about her family, about her faith, even a little

bit about her politics and her goal on YouTube and beyond.

Let me just tell you, it was one of the most interesting conversations I've had in a long time and I hope would be an encouragement

for you to have similar conversations during this month and beyond.

Now one of the interesting things I told it to begin, I said, hey, when we get to the end, you can ask me anything

you'd like to ask a Christian professor. I didn't have a clue what she was going to ask me.

But her last question was fascinating and I gave my best response. So we hope number one

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