Nov 29, 2022
The first two Deadly Sexual Sins According to the Church—don’t have sex before you get married, and don’t be gay—are commonly linked to the church’s sexual ethic.
The third of the sins is the psychological engine for the church’s position on sexuality: Don’t lust.
And to be fair, don’t lust has important...
Nov 21, 2022
Jeremiah and Julia continue their series The Seven Deadly Sexual Sins, According to the Church, with the deadliest of the “sins”, as we were reminded over the weekend in Colorado Springs:
Don’t be gay.
Jeremiah and Julia discuss the different ways that the combination of “Don’t be gay” and “Don’t have...
Nov 21, 2022
The murders at Club Q on November 20 in Colorado Springs are horrific, as are all acts of violence against the queer community.
Julia and Jeremiah bypass the impulse to dissect how church rhetoric impacted the murders, especially given that they happened in the mecca of the Evangelical Church, and land on the following...
Nov 6, 2022
Welcome back to Church, and Julia and Jeremiah's Wednesday night mid-week class called the Seven Deadly Sexual Sins. Today, we talk about the first of the sins, which is also the apex of Purity Culture:
Don't have sex before you get married.
And as Jeremiah and Julia discuss, the Evangelical Church has collaborated with...