Episode 60: Talking to Your Kids (And to Yourself) About LGBTQ Issues

Pride month just wrapped up. Favorite children’s shows are featuring LGBTQ content. School curricula, corporate policies, and legislation are swiftly changing. Many parents wonder how to navigate conversations about all of this with their children of all ages. Of course conversations with our kids begin with conversations with ourselves. We have to ask what we really believe, on what we base our convictions, and how to pass the truth on to our children. On this episode of All Things we talk through some foundational reminders about the character and goodness of our God, his design and mercy in creation, his trustworthiness as our Maker and Savior, and his good, beautiful, and true words, which hold out life to you and me and to our children. As culture quickly changes, our God does not. We can anchor ourselves to him and share his words of life with others. He is not anxious, nor do we need be. He is sovereign and kind and able to minister to us and through us, as well as our children, and all those we love and work with and live with. In this cultural moment it’s easy to feel embarrassed, awkward, or apologetic for a Biblical sexual ethic. But the warm and hard words of Jesus have been a light in the dark forever and that’s not changing now. Christian, as you hold out grace and truth, you hold out life. Speak life to your kids, to yourself, and to those in your sphere.

Additional resources to help you navigate these conversations:

Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story by Christopher Yuan

Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been by Jackie Hill Perry

Why does God care who I sleep with? by Sam Allberry

Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say by Preston Sprinkle

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert : An English Professor's Journey into Christian Faith by Rosaria Butterfield

Born Again This Way by Rachel Gilson

God and the Transgender Debate by Andrew Walker

Theology in the Raw Podcast by Preston Sprinkle

Does God Still Love Me If I’m Gay? - TGC Podcast by Sam Allberry

THE HAPPY HOUR #403: REBECCA MCLAUGHLIN - Jamie Ivey

4 ways to equip your kids to walk with friends who experience gender dysphoria - Wendy Alsup, ERLC