Hello, beautiful people. Welcome to God is Gray, the podcast. Although I as a Christian believe that God resides in absolute truth, in black and white, we as people are stuck here on planet Earth contending with the gray. In church,

gray areas often cause dissension, anger, and even hate. But on this platform, I welcome open

dialogue, variety of opinion, and differing belief systems. God is gray is meant to teach,

inform, and simply trade stories with kindness, love, and mutual

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Hi, beautiful people. This conversation might be quite controversial to people peeking in because

we're going to be talking about body positivity and some of the misunderstandings we have about

what makes a healthy body. I see a lot of Christians nowadays

pushing back on body positivity and being really wary that it means that unhealthy bodies, quote

unquote, are just going to be widely accepted and people aren't going to care about their health

anymore. So this conversation is going to ebb and flow and get into those complicated territories.

And you're allowed to have your own opinion, but I also hope that you will just open your ears

and your mind and your heart to hearing a perspective that is different because simply

vilifying people or looking at their body in particular, judging someone based just off of what you see

is never the way Christians were meant to be. So let's challenge ourselves to go deeper right now

with Dr. Lex. She is a couple's clinician who helps reduce conflict and sexual shame through

therapy, education, and liberation. We love freedom and liberation here on God

is Gray. She's also a certified sex educator, bestselling author, keynote speaker, curriculum

designer, and grand rounds lecturer. It's her mission to deliver sex positive, comprehensive,

gender expansive, addie positive, culturally diverse, queer and trans, inclusive, medically accurate, shame-free, sex education.

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