Sexual Identity and Radical Ordinary Hospitality :: Dr. Rosaria Butterfield [Ep 301]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Several listeners recommended Dr. Rosaria Butterfield as a guest on our recent survey. I’m so glad you did! Dr. Butterfield shares about her former life as a lesbian and professor of queer theory. In a quest to understand why Christians hated her, a neighbor introduced her Christ. Now she is an author, speaker, pastor’s wife, adoptive mother of four and gospel advocate to her neighbors.

She is passionate about helping Christians lovingly look past labels of sexual identity and share the gospel effectively.

“So if you know that you have neighbors who identify as lesbian. Don't avoid them. That's not what Christian neighbors do. You know? I think we really do need to see these things head on. Don't be afraid to listen to what people's concerns are and then speak a word in season. I would say too that Christians don't throw people away. We shouldn't be known for people who throw people away because they're inconvenient.”

We talk about a lot of subjects that can be difficult for us as moms to discuss, but also about how important it is that we have conversations with our kids about sexual identity, the Gospel and who God made them to be.

“The first thing is as Christian parents, if you don't talk to your children about sexuality, Someone else will. So while we want to maintain modesty and care and age appropriateness, we absolutely do not want to shirk this responsibility. We need to foreground the beauty and the majesty and the calling of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman.”

Connect with Dr. Butterfield:

Website: https://rosariabutterfield.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast.
0:10.8	I'm your host, Heather McFadian.
0:12.8	This is the place where I'm going to walk alongside you and connect you with people and
0:17.0	resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:20.9	In this episode, number 301, I'm inviting on the show Dr. Rosaria Butterfield.
0:27.5	So if you know that you have neighbors who identify as lesbian, don't avoid them, it
0:32.9	really.
0:33.9	That's not what Christian neighbors do.
0:36.7	You know, I think that we just really do need to see these things head on and I think
0:42.1	we also need to remember Ephesians 429 when we're talking to our children and to our neighbors
0:47.2	and make sure that what you want to say in parts grace to the hearer.
0:53.8	And I think part of maybe because we don't want to keep having this conversation, we're
0:58.8	hoping that we can just kind of get the memo out and then nobody ever talked to us about
1:03.0	this again.
1:04.4	But this conversation is not going away.
1:06.9	It's not going away.
1:07.9	So don't be afraid to listen.
1:11.6	Don't be afraid to listen to what people's concerns are and then speak a word in season.
1:20.6	We took a recent podcast listener survey and on it, we asked for y'all to send in requests
1:26.2	for guests you'd like to have on the show.
1:27.8	And so many of you suggested I chat with Dr. Rosaria Butterfield and I'm so glad you did.
1:33.4	First, she is brilliant.
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