Navigating Sex, Singleness, and Gender Identity in Modern Christianity

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A candid, wide-ranging conversation with Mike Erre and Andy as they tackle a grab bag of honest and often unspoken questions from listeners about sex, marriage, singleness, divorce, and gender identity. With humor, vulnerability, and a deep reverence for both Scripture and lived experience, this Q&A episode pulls back the curtain on real Christian struggles in today's complicated cultural landscape. Drawing from listener-submitted questions, Mike and Andy unpack how to talk to your kids about sex, how the church mishandles singleness, why married Christians often struggle with sexual shame, what to do when your spouse transitions genders—and what it looks like to reflect Jesus in all of these tough spaces.

Key Takeaways:
• Sexuality and the Church – Why the church's emphasis on abstinence and purity culture often fails to prepare people for healthy sexual relationships within marriage.
• Being Single in a Married Church – The overlooked spiritual and emotional needs of single adults and why the modern church often alienates them.
• Transgender Identity and Marriage – When one partner transitions gender identity, what does Christian faithfulness look like? A deeply human reflection on grace, betrayal, and discernment.
• Teaching Kids About Sex – How Mike is raising his kids with an open, age-appropriate, and body-positive approach to sexuality grounded in wonder rather than shame.
• Holy Frustrations – How polarized reactions on social media—like the recent backlash against Jen Hatmaker—show the urgent need for gracious, Christ-centered disagreement within the body of Christ.

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0:00.0	All right. Hello, everybody. Mike and Andy here.
0:13.7	Mandy, if you want to just give us like the nickname.
0:18.6	We are here. We're back in the World Headquarters, the Vox World Headquarters, Bray, California. We are here. We're back in the world headquarters, the Vox World headquarters,
0:22.6	Bray, California. Last episode, we were live in Placentia, which is a real city.
0:30.3	California at Villan Studios, which was totally appropriate. And we did a live show,
0:36.1	our first live show. We had 60 of you come out
0:38.4	which which blew our minds that so many of you and the feedback you gave us was
0:43.7	just ridiculous and and great so we're so excited about that much news in in the
0:49.6	Vox community to share with you briefly number one as you know this many of you know we have
0:56.2	another podcast that is the podcast that is the teaching and story from our little church
1:01.3	plant in North Orange County called Vox Community so the Vox Community
1:07.6	podcast is more of a Bible-y teaching.
1:15.5	And then some of the very raw stories, particularly this last week. Yeah, Alex had a great story this last weekend.
1:18.5	So, so, so there's that.
1:22.5	Andy has been working on something called Patreon, which is a playoff of patron. And it's a way for people
1:31.5	to regularly contribute to artistic and creative endeavors. So different from Kickstarter,
1:37.3	which is a kind of or GoFundMe, which is a kind of a kickoff phase. Yeah, like a project-based
1:43.2	fundraising. This is more of a support. So,
1:45.8	Andy, tell us a little bit about what you're cooking up. Yeah, so in a week from the time that this
1:51.0	show will come out on Monday, we'll officially have the Patreon page up. And there'll be a few
1:55.9	different levels of how you can contribute with the mounts with different fun incentives that go along.
2:02.0	Yes, there's some ridiculous incentives. And by ridiculous, I mean literally ridiculous,
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