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Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
FreedHearts founder, Susan Cottrell, joins Michael sharing her story choosing her bisexual daughter over conservative Christianity. Her organization helps those in the LBGTQ community deal with family, religious, and community wounds and find a chosen family. They help the non-affirming church be more inclusive and help parents understand their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children, keep their kids safe, and their family strong.
Michael and Susan have a illuminating conversation on what it's like to come out of evangelicalism when forced to choose between a religion and a child. Susan shares how she came to realize something was terribly wrong with the Rulebook approach to interpreting homosexuality in the Bible and what she learned in her research.
Rejected by many family and friends, she evolved into a voice for the wounded, developing courses and content that help people in the LGBTQ community deal with rejection, bullying, and gay bashing. Her work also helps parents, when entrenched in religiously-motivated judgmentalism, to find a new love-affirming paradigm that accepts, includes, and cherishes their gay children.
Visit Susan's FreedHearts to learn more and Michael's Spiritual Brewpub to learn about getting help with deconstructing fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity.
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Bullshit! And scriptural wrong . If you’re not lgbt you won’t study what it really says. Read your Greek do your research?
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
There’s no such thing as a rabbit trail, it’s a rabbit hole.
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Actually I have Autism and there’s a higher rate of gender identity issues related to that.
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
That church sounds like a cult. Before 1946 the word homosexuality was never in the Bible, I recommend the the movie documentary 1946 that’s out now doing the film festivals. I’ve studied the original Greek scriptures it’s not there. Ignorant puritans.
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
This is my comment: you can cherish your gay child but your child cannot belong to the church of Christ when WILLFULLY engaging in the sin of homosexuality. The way is simple, although difficult in practice; belong to the church but DO NOT ENGAGE in homosexuality. Like I said, in practice it is difficult. But we all must carry our cross IF we want to follow Christ. But no, she probably will not give up homosexuality for Christ, she would rather have Christ bend to her homosexuality. Wrong.
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
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