Raising Gender-Confident Kids, #591
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How do you raise kids who feel grounded in their God-given identity in a world of confusing messages about gender?
Dr. Kathy Koch and Dr. Jeff Myers join Juli to unpack how to guide youg people with truth, curiosity, and presence. You'll hear how to lay the foundations of identity, respond to cultural pressures, and raise confident boys and girls.
Whether you're a parent, grandparent, or mentor, this conversation offers you practical tools and biblical insight for today's tough questions.
Guests: Dr. Kathy Koch and Dr. Jeff Myers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome to Job with Julie. I am Julie Slattery, and this podcast is an outreach of authentic |
| 0:08.0 | intimacy, a ministry dedicated to helping you make sense of God and sexuality. Well, I remember |
| 0:14.8 | the very first time I ever spoke publicly to a crowd about sex. This was a long time ago, and I was at a woman's conference, and somebody asked me if I would crowd about sex. This was a long time ago and I was at a woman's conference and |
| 0:23.1 | somebody asked me if I would talk about sex and marriage. And let me just tell you, I was so |
| 0:28.4 | nervous. There were hives just crawling up my neck. I couldn't wait to be done. So I'm speaking in |
| 0:34.6 | this room with about 400 women and they're just kind of glaring at me |
| 0:39.2 | as I'm trying to address sexuality within marriage. |
| 0:43.2 | And I remember in that moment just praying to God, like, God, I must have heard you wrong. |
| 0:48.4 | This was a terrible idea to talk about sex. |
| 0:51.7 | If you get me through this next hour, I promise I will never do this again. |
| 0:56.5 | Well, I did get through that hour, and although the audience was really quiet when I was talking, |
| 1:01.6 | what happened next really surprised me. After I was done speaking, a line formed of women who |
| 1:08.1 | had follow-up questions, who wanted to share their story with me, |
| 1:12.4 | who were wrestling with things like pornography and same-sex attraction and trauma and betrayal. |
| 1:20.7 | And as I was talking and praying with those women, I remember saying another prayer to God. |
| 1:26.7 | And I said, God, I did hear you right. |
| 1:29.7 | You wanted me to talk about sex. |
| 1:32.0 | And it just broke my heart that the church historically has been so quiet about this topic. |
| 1:38.9 | And just how much pain just filled that one room. |
| 1:42.1 | Boy, that was many, many years ago, a long time before I even |
| 1:45.7 | started the ministry, authentic intimacy. But God has continued to call me into this space, and I'm |
| 1:51.5 | constantly just touched by how much pain there is around this topic of sexuality. While the |
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