Welcome to a special episode of the Think Biblically podcast. I've got Preston Sprinkle,

author and speaker, here in person in studio, and we had a two-hour conversation about some of the

most thorny issues tied to the LGBTQ conversation today. So we decided to break it up into two different

episodes. And this first episode, we talk about how the conversation has shifted over the past

decade or so. And then we dive into discussing and really debating pronouns, whether Christians

should use preferred pronouns. Now, you might think, wait a minute, you had a discussion maybe six months ago with Timu'll have about this.

Yes, that's true, but we go a little different direction, take it a little bit further.

I think you're going to really enjoy this conversation.

What is the state of the church and the LGBTQ conversation today?

What does it mean to be faithful in our cultural moment?

And how has this conversation shifted in the past decade since the Obergefell v. Hodges' Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage?

My guest today will be familiar to most, if not all, of our audience.

Dr. Preston-Sprinkle is an author.

You're a speaker.

You're this head of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender.

And might I add a lightning rod of controversy?

Is that a part of officially your bio?

Not intentionally, no, but yeah, that might apply in some cases.

You don't look for it, but it finds itself there. All right, we're going to jump right in

because there's so much to cover. And I'm really curious. There's probably not,

you and I have probably been to the people writing, speaking on issues of sexuality.

And so we've seen certain things that maybe other people haven't seen.

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