Why Katie Thurston of "The Bachelorette" is making headlines: Four biblical steps to living with character God can bless
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Katie Thurston is making headlines as The Bachelorette begins its current season. In The Daily Article for June 14, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this story, then he surveys the sexual revolution of our day, demonstrates its devastation, and offers us four biblical steps to living with character God can bless.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.3 | The Bachelorette debuted in 2003. |
| 0:22.6 | A single Bachelorette decides between a pool of bachelors. |
| 0:26.6 | To date, four seasons have resulted in marriages between the Bachelorette and the person she chose. |
| 0:32.6 | Katie Thurston, the Bachelorette for the season that debuted last week, is making headlines because of what she calls her sex positivity. |
| 0:42.2 | She explains that, I talk about sex in a very casual way, and refers to sexual activities I will not describe here. |
| 0:50.7 | She says fans will see some conversations about sex positivity because it is 2021, and it's important we talk about it, especially with our partners. |
| 1:02.0 | According to a therapist interviewed in the article, being non-judgmental is at the heart of sex positivity. |
| 1:09.0 | Another stated that this is an especially important conversation now, |
| 1:13.3 | given that sex is still often viewed as a sin. She added, this can be a good move for this |
| 1:19.7 | franchise to start the dialogue publicly on healthy sexuality. It can be the swing we need as a culture. |
| 1:27.1 | A third therapist added that we should support and show reverence to sex workers who provide |
| 1:33.2 | essential services. |
| 1:35.0 | Otherwise, she warned, sex positivity is selective sexual freedom that is often self-serving. |
| 1:49.5 | The God who created us made us sexual beings. He designed us in Genesis 2 in such a way that it is not good that the man should be alone. As a result, |
| 1:56.6 | the Lord made a helper fit for him. God intended sex to be a celebration of their intimacy |
| 2:03.0 | and the means by which they would be fruitful and multiply. From then until now, God's intention |
| 2:10.1 | for sex is clear. Genesis 2.24 says, A man shall leave his father and his mother, and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become |
| 2:19.7 | one flesh. When Jesus was asked by the Pharisees about divorce in Matthew 19, he quoted this |
| 2:26.5 | verse and added, They are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, |
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