S9 Ep946: A Celibate Gay Christian’s Perspective on Valentine’s Day and Belonging: Dr. Greg Coles

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Dr. Gregory Coles is senior research fellow at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender, and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian: A Personal Journey of Faith and Sexual Identity (IVP, 2017) and No Longer Strangers: Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation (IVP, 2021). He holds a PhD in English from Penn State and works as a writer, speaker, and worship leader. His fiction and expository writing have been published by Penguin Random House and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; his academic research on rhetorical theory (how language works in society) has appeared in College English and Rhetorica and in an edited collection from Cambridge University Press. You can find most of his creative activities curated at gregorycoles.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology Neuro and Happy Valentine's Day to
0:05.6	celebrate Valentine's Day. I wanted to have on the podcast my very, very good friend, Dr.
0:10.7	Greg Coles. Greg is a senior research fellow at the Center for face sexuality and gender. He's the
0:16.8	author of a few books, including Single Gay Christian and No Longer Strangers. We talk about both
0:22.5	those books on this podcast, especially his most recent book No Longer Strangers, Heels of Ph.D.
0:28.2	in English from Penn State, and works as a writer speaker and worship leader. The dude is just all
0:33.6	around. Awesome. As you'll see, Greg's amazing. A lot of you guys know Greg, and he's just one of
0:38.3	the most delightful human beings to walk the face of the earth. Also, just to let you know that we have
0:45.0	recently, I mean, both Greg and I have helped produce this new resource called Parenting LGBTQ
0:51.5	Kids. We produced it through the Center for face sexuality and gender, and it is a discipleship
0:56.4	resource to help Christian parents to embody both the grace and truth of Jesus toward their
1:03.5	LGBTQ loved one. We have a pre-order discount that's available. The resource comes out February
1:10.8	28th, but if you pre-order it between now and February 28th, you'll get 20 bucks off of this
1:16.8	resource. ParentingLGBTQKids.com, go to ParentingLGBTQKids.com, and all the info is in the show notes.
1:25.2	Okay, let's get to know the one or only Dr. Gregory Coles.
1:45.7	Welcome to the basement, Dr. Greg Coles. Oh, hey, thanks. It's always a pleasure to be in the basement.
1:50.9	This is the second time that you've been in the basement for the algebra. Yeah, we did a double
1:56.9	header sometime last year. No, not last year anymore, 2020. 20 years ago. 2020, year and a half ago.
2:03.2	Wow, I had Tom in here. So we did two and a half, almost two and a half hours on brothers,
2:09.1	Karamazov. And I was like, nobody is going to listen to this. This is, you know, the five people
2:15.4	who keep asking me, she'd do a podcast on the book. I'm like, I would enjoy that, but I don't know
2:20.0	if anybody else. And I've gotten so many people that like rave about that episode. There you go.
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