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Greg Coles is back and helps us navigate some tough questions, including is it really possible to love LGBTQ+ people in churches that hold to the traditional biblical view of sex and marriage being between a man and a woman?
Gregory Coles is the author of Single, Gay, Christian (InterVarsity Press, 2017) and No Longer Strangers (InterVarsity Press, 2021). He holds a PhD in English from Penn State and lives in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, where he works as a writer and speaker. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender and curates most of his creative activities at gregorycoles.com.
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To Greg: Is it really a “21st century white male impulse to answer all the questions for everyone” or “to try to answer everyone’s questions for them”? I mean, here you are, on this podcast, as a 21st century, white male, answering people’s questions for them. I think we can agree that there is a long and esteemed line of non-white, male people answering people’s questions for them, both in the Bible and throughout history. There are 21st century female non-white people answering people’s questions for them and nobody bats an eye. Is this practice really such a bad thing? I’m appealing to you to drop the use of the “21st century white male” trope.