S9 Ep922: The Stability of Scandalous Adoration: Dr. Greg Coles
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🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Greg gave a killer talk at this year’s Revoice conference. If you missed it--here it is! Here’s the blurb: What does it mean to adore Jesus in a world that sees our adoration as scandalous? Taking our cues from a few of the Bible’s most notorious worshippers, we’ll celebrate together the stabilizing power of worship — a power no one can take from us.
Greg is the author of Single, Gay, Christian (InterVarsity Press, 2017) and No Longer Strangers (InterVarsity Press, 2021). He holds a PhD in English from Penn State and lives in Idaho's Treasure Valley, where he works as a writer and speaker. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender and curates most of his creative activities at gregorycoles.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. |
| 0:03.4 | This episode is the third of three talks that I've released on the podcast that we're given at the |
| 0:11.7 | Revoice Conference back in, when was Revoice Conference back in early October. |
| 0:17.0 | So the first talk that I released was with Misty Irons and the second talk was from yours, |
| 0:21.5 | truly, for me. And this talk is from my very good friend, Dr. Greg Coles. Greg should |
| 0:29.0 | need no introduction to most of you, but he works for the Center for Face Sexuality and Gender |
| 0:34.8 | that I serve at as well. He is the author of Single Gay Christian and another book called No Longer |
| 0:41.5 | Strangers. He has a PhD in English from Penn State. And if you, if you've hung out with Greg |
| 0:48.2 | for more than five minutes, you know that he is one of those delightful, amazing human beings that |
| 0:53.6 | God has ever created. And his talk at Revoice was super awesome. I mean, there was not a shock |
| 1:00.8 | to anybody in the room, anybody that knows Greg, but I was like, man, I would love to release this |
| 1:04.8 | talk on the podcast because it was super challenging, convicting, encouraging, and all the above. |
| 1:10.8 | So please welcome back to the show for, I don't know how many times it's been on, but here he's kind |
| 1:15.3 | of on in a different way by giving this talk. Please welcome to the show again. They want an only Dr. |
| 1:22.0 | Great Close. |
| 1:39.1 | I want to talk to you today about the scandalous adoration. So in July of this year, |
| 1:45.0 | I moved to Boise, Idaho, which is a city known for its thriving gay celibate community, |
| 1:50.8 | with churches at every street corner eager to welcome people like me into worship, into fellowship, |
| 1:57.2 | even into leadership. I am of course just kidding. Not about moving to Boise, that part is true, |
| 2:04.1 | but the church situation for LGBTQ folks is, let's just say it's complicated and leave it at that. |
| 2:10.8 | My first Sunday in town, I attended no less than three different churches. |
| 2:16.3 | The 930AM service at church number one wasn't quite over by a 1030, but I snuck out the back anyway |
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