Christian Schools and Gender Identity + How to Reason in the Pro-Choice/Heartbeat Bill Debate
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane talk through the challenges in reasoning through the pro-choice stance in the face of Texas' new heartbeat bill. John also answers a question on a recent commentary dealing with Millennials. The listeners asks how to communicate the goodness of the Gospel to those who might have a taste for it.
To close, John and Shane go point-by-point through a series of statements a Christian school administrator is fielding in Australia. The listener's school is considering how to process sexual orientation and gender identity at their non-denominational school. The listener notes that many teachers haven't been able to process all of the points before the conversation rose. John and Shane provide resources and a step-by-step response to the points listed below:
- The Bible's authors only wrote to their particular context and knew nothing of what us contemporaries now understand about human sexuality,
- The word 'homosexuality' is a recent, Victorian-era invention inserted into scripture to condemn all same-sex sexual activity when that was not the original intent,
- The word/s used in scripture to denote homosexuality actually only condemn exploitative sexual practices, not same-sex sexuality between consenting adults,
- The story of Sodom and Gomorrah denotes God's judgment on the people of those cities due to their lack of hospitality rather than the practice of homosexuality, and
- Jesus said very little about sexuality anyway.
-- Resources --
Same-Sex Marriage: A Thoughtful Approach to God's Design for Marriage
Sean McDowell & John Stonestreet | Baker Books | 2014
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation, A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics
Richard Hayes | Harper | August, 1996
Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story
Christopher Yuan | Multnomah | 2018
The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics
Robert Gagnon | Abingdon Press | 2002
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint Podcasts and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm joined by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center, and of course the voice of Breakpoint. |
| 0:15.0 | Today we're answering your questions. All of these were sparked by either Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, or the Colson Fellows program. |
| 0:22.7 | If you've got a question that you'd like us to answer here on the podcast, you can send it to us |
| 0:27.5 | at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:32.3 | John, we just talked a little bit in the staff meeting this morning about the term worldview and, you know, what it |
| 0:39.3 | actually means. And it got me wondering, what is a worldview question? We talk about how we're |
| 0:44.1 | answering worldview questions on this program. What does it mean to ask and answer a question |
| 0:48.9 | from a Christian worldview perspective? Is there something really specific about that? Or is it |
| 0:53.2 | just kind of a brand we're slapping onto the issue? Well, if we were completely honest about our motives, |
| 0:59.7 | worldview gives us a get out of jail free card to talk about anything and everything we want, |
| 1:03.6 | which is actually a reflection of a definition of worldview, which I call the theory of |
| 1:07.6 | everything worldview. And you'll see this in some of the books on worldview. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm thinking of Norm Geisler's book in particular, |
| 1:14.6 | where he talks about worldview as anything and everything that you believe. |
| 1:18.9 | And I think that's probably unwieldy. |
| 1:21.2 | I don't think that's actually certainly not what the word itself actually has implied |
| 1:26.8 | from its first use among German |
| 1:29.6 | rationalist. It tends to mean, or historically it's meant more of kind of fundamental |
| 1:36.8 | assumptions. So you could say a worldview question is a question that gets below the surface |
| 1:41.3 | a little bit that goes beyond the the, you know, the face value |
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