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🗓️ 13 April 2023
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0:00.0 | How should Christians think about transgender ideology? |
0:04.0 | 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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