The Bear W/ Community holds "Big Gatherings" each month; some of them like this conversation, are open to the public.
What you are hearing on this episode is one of those meetings and the beginning of regular gatherings to discuss the potential of unity amongst affirming and un-affirming Christians. With Liz Miller (Christian woman married to a woman) and Hunter Gregory (Christian man engaged to a man) as some of the main voices in this conversation, we all discuss whether it's possible to truly love a queer person without affirming his or her sexuality.
Lots of grace in this one, thrown in all directions. If you have engaged evangelicalism, you keenly understand how people land on both sides of this one. Matt Oxley, one of the co-hosts (queer himself, former evangelical) has empathy for those who do not affirm him. He sees them as "victims" of a smear campaign that's been going on for the last hundred years.
How about this one? Is it good or bad, that not one un-affirming person Joey approached to engage in this discussion, was willing to? Hunter Gregory says "that's a bunch of malarky and hogwash." (probably not his exact words)
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