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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Book Review: A Transgender Man's Journey with Scripture

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How can Christians best love their transgender friends, family members, and co-workers? How should Christians think about transgender ideology? In this discussion, Sean and Scott review the recent book, In The Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey with Scripture. They discuss gender stereotypes, preferred pronouns, and more.Read a transcript of this episode at: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2023/book-review-a-transgender-man-s-journey-with-scripture. ==========Think ...

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How should Christians think about transgender ideology?

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More importantly, how can we best love our transgender family members, friends, and

0:09.2

coworkers?

0:10.2

Today we're going to review a book called In the Margins, a transgender man's journey with

0:16.4

scripture by Shannon Kearns. I'm your host Sean McDow, this is my co-host Scott Ray. This is Think Bivocally, a podcast brought to by

0:26.0

Talbot School Theology, Biola University. Scott, you ready to go?

0:30.3

Let's get to it. All right. So Sean, you know, as I look around the market for books on this, I don't see many books

0:36.9

like this where there's a transgender person who takes his face seriously and attempts to take the Bible seriously too.

0:45.6

So I think to start with, tell our listeners what is this book about?

0:50.4

Give us a summary of it.

0:51.4

Yeah, so this book is the story of Shannon, grown up in a conservative, and I also get the feeling

0:58.5

it's more of a fundamentalist evangelical household and church.

1:03.0

Sounds a bit rigid.

1:05.0

Yeah, I think it's minimally pretty rigid much more than we would be here at

1:08.9

Biola as a whole.

1:11.3

And as a young person experiencing certain kind of gender expectations, a kind of gender

1:17.0

dysphoria, wrestling with what it meant to have faith, go on mission trips, read the Bible, but not fit certain gender expectations

1:25.8

from the church and from the culture. Eventually, Shannon comes out as a lesbian and shares the

1:32.1

story of just some of the pain of how that was received in a

1:35.7

certain community, gets married, and then transitions to a transgender male, goes through a divorce that is shared openly in the book,

1:45.9

kind of hits a rock bottom, and then just kind of

1:48.7

rediscovers oneself, you might say,

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