S2 Ep1094: A Raw Conversation with the Master Yoda of the Faith and LGBTQ Conversation: Dr. Mark Yarhouse

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dr. Mark A. Yarhouse, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist who specializes in conflicts tied to religious identity and sexual and gender identity. He assists people who are navigating the complex relationship between their sexual or gender identity and Christian faith. He is the Dr. Arthur P. and Mrs. Jean May Rech Chair in Psychology at Wheaton College, where he runs the Sexual and Gender Identity (SGI) Institute. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher and is the past recipient of the Gary Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or co-author of several books, including Understanding Sexual Identity: A Resource for Youth Ministers and Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. His most recent books are Sexual Identity & Faith and Costly Obedience: Listening to and Learning from Celibate Gay Christians. In this conversation, Mark and I talk about many things related to his journey in the sexuality/gender conversation over the last 25 years including sexual orietnation change efforts, the cause of same-sex attraction, the complexity of gender dysphoria and gender identity, the role that social influence plays in the rise in teens identifying as trans, and many other questions.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rod is my great honor to have
0:04.8	the one and only Dr. Mark Yarhouse on Theology in the Rod today. Dr. Yarhouse is a professor of
0:11.2	psychology at Wheaton College. He's also the director of Sexual and Gender Identity Institute
0:16.2	at Wheaton College. He's the author of over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles of book chapters
0:22.5	and the author or co-author of many books, including understanding sexual identity, understanding
0:27.6	gender dysphoria, sexual identity and faith, costly obedience, and many, many others. If anybody
0:35.0	has done any kind of research in the question of faith, sexuality, gender identity, especially
0:42.5	looking into some of the psychological questions that often come up that are mentor either
0:48.6	formally or informally to so many of us that have wandered into this conversation. So it's a great
0:53.2	honor to have my friend Dr. Mark Yarhouse on the show. So please welcome him to the show.
1:08.4	Dr. Mark Yarhouse, the master Yoda of the sexuality and gender conversation as it pertains to
1:16.7	the evangelical Christian faith. Mark, I can't believe this is the first time you've been on the
1:20.0	podcast. So anyway, it's been this has been a long time coming, but thanks for coming on.
1:24.8	Yeah, glad to do it. I'm surprised we haven't connected either, but glad to do so today.
1:29.3	Well, there's been a few people where I'm like, you know, wake up one day. I'm like, oh, my
1:32.9	word, I've never had that person on the podcast, even though I'm like close to them and friends of
1:36.8	them and run in similar circles. So I think you're one of those, one that I'm like, I can't believe
1:42.1	I haven't had you on. So it hasn't been intentional for sure. I don't know if that's the first time
1:47.0	you've been called the master Yoda of the sexuality. You've been in this space for a long time.
1:56.4	Can you take us back to the beginning? Like when did you get interested in this conversation?
2:01.9	It's been almost a couple of decades, right? Yeah. So it's been 25 years that I've been
2:06.8	I've been teaching psychology as a as a professor and actually prior to that is when it occurred.
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