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This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Anne Kennedy about her article, “The Teaching of Preston Sprinkle, Biblical Sexuality, and the LGBTQ Conversation.”

“Sometimes how we believe,” writes Dr. Preston Sprinkle in Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say, “is just as important as what we believe.” Sprinkle’s conversational, friendly, and confident authorial voice is both appealing and provocative. “The content of what we say is significant,” he goes on, “We should reject lazy thinking, unbiblical theories, and convoluted illogical reasons for what we believe. But if our posture and tone don’t communicate love, the content of our ideas will be powerless.”

Sprinkle occupies no small position in American evangelicalism. With a PhD in New Testament from Aberdeen University, over two decades of interviewing those who identify themselves by the LGBTQ acronym, books, conferences, and The Upside-Down Kingdom Study Bible, Sprinkle may be considered an expert on many trending topics. He has carved out a sphere of influence, most particularly, however, in the sexuality debate.

His contention, if one could possibly sum up so great a body of work, is that because sexual minorities have been so excluded from and injured by the church, it is necessary for Christians to alter the manner, the tone, and sometimes even the vocabulary of faith. The content, as he says, is “significant,” but because it has been communicated so unlovingly, many LGBTQ people have not come to know the Lord nor inhabit those spiritual communities that ought to have given them space to flourish and grow.

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