Sexual Orientation, Revoice, and Evangelical Approaches to the LGBTQ Conversation: Dr. Nate Collins

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

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Dr. Nate Collins has a Ph.D. in New Testament from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality (Zondervan, 2017), as well as a forthcoming volume about sexuality in the Biblical Theology for Life series from Zondervan Academic. And in 2018, Nate founded the ministry of Revoice and serves as its current President. Join the Theology in the Raw community to listen to my "extra innings" conversation with Nate about his journey as a gay man in evangelicalism, including his 14 years at Southern Seminary.

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rah. My guest today is my good friend, Dr. Nate Collins, who has a PhD in New Testament from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He's the author of All But Invisible,
0:11.4	Exploring Identity Questions at the intersection of faith, gender, and sexuality, as well as a forthcoming volume about sexuality in the Biblical Theology for Life series from Zondervan Academic. In 2018,
0:23.6	Nate founded the ministry called Revoice, and he currently serves as its president. And that's what
0:31.5	we talk about in this episode. We talk all about revoice, sexual orientation, and the blessings and trials that have come with operating as an
0:40.2	evangelical leader in the gender and sexuality space.
0:43.4	So please welcome back to the show, the one-only, Dr. Nate Collins.
0:58.1	Nate Collins, welcome back to Theology and to Ra.
1:04.4	Why don't we start by you sharing your heart for why you started Revoice?
1:12.8	And maybe for those who don't know what Revoices, you know, include in that story, what is Revoice Revoiced and what led you to want to start this,
1:17.7	this ministry? Oh, wow. Well, thanks for the invitation to be here. It's good to be back again.
1:23.7	Wow. Where to start? The ministry of Revoice, you know, Revoiced is our mission statement. We exist to support and encourage sexual minority Christians who hold to a traditional sexual
1:27.7	ethic and all those who love them so that the whole church might flourish.
1:31.5	And basically, I just realized that there was a need for a space for those of us who are gay
1:36.6	and Christian and adhere to a traditional sexual ethic to gather and just be together,
1:41.7	be together in a place where we could feel that we belonged, where we
1:45.2	could worship together, we could be taught, and we could do it and sort of not have to explain
1:50.7	ourselves or not have to explain various aspects of our experience, but just that no, people
1:56.9	would know that people would understand, we'd be known. And so, yeah, we started
2:01.9	about seven years ago. We had our first conference in 2018. And it really was just that experience
2:08.8	of feeling like you belonged that was what was so beautiful about it and really has been ever since.
2:15.3	It's just a beautiful, beautiful time. About how many people come to
2:19.1	the conferences? I was at, I've been at three, I think. And the first one, I think it was about
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