In this special bonus episode we meet Lauren Jackson, a sex educator who shares her experiences of preparing our young people to navigate the world of sex and relationships positively and safely.

Content warning: This series covers issues of sexual relationships, abuse, gender and identity, so listener discretion is advised. Please look after yourselves.

Lauren shares her valuable insights into what our teenagers think about sex, and some ways parents and youth leaders can begin to approach the topic of sex and relationships with the young people in their care.

Resources

Lauren has put together some helpful resources for navigating sex and relationships here. If you have any questions for Lauren about anything covered in the episode, or for further advice, please pop us an email.

Coming up

Episode 4 – The binfire rages on – is released on Monday 24 November. Simon will be picking up the baton and running headlong through two millenia of Church history to explain how we arrived at our present day conception of marriage.

About A God We Could Believe In:

A frank and honest look at Christianity as we find it today. We’re examining the things the church says and does that are embarrassing, confusing or even downright offensive. In other religious contexts, your questions might be forbidden but not here. So whether you’re a lifelong churchgoer with the scars to prove it, or you’ve never entered a church and are just interested in the debate, this is a safe space for you.

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We wrestle with your questions in response to our latest episode, Marriage in the Bible is a binfire.

Content warning: This series covers issues of sexual relationships, abuse, gender and identity, so listener discretion is advised. Please look after yourselves.

If the depiction of marriage in the Bible is so chaotic then what are we supposed to do with it? Does God bring anything important to marriage, and why don’t churches seem to have anything to say to single people over 45?

Coming up

Next Monday 17 November, we’re releasing a special bonus episode with sex educator (and childhood friend of Rachel) Lauren Jackson. Lauren shares her valuable insights into what our teenagers think about sex, and some ways parents and youth leaders can begin to approach the topic of sex and relationships with the young people in their care.

Episode 4 – The binfire rages on – is released on Monday 24 November. Simon will be picking up the baton and running headlong through two millenia of Church history to explain how we arrived at our present day conception of marriage.

About A God We Could Believe In:

A frank and honest look at Christianity as we find it today. We’re examining the things the church says and does that are embarrassing, confusing or even downright offensive. In other religious contexts, your questions might be forbidden but not here. So whether you’re a lifelong churchgoer with the scars to prove it, or you’ve never entered a church and are just interested in the debate, this is a safe space for you.

New episodes are released every other Monday.

Support the project by sharing it widely and join our Substack community for bonus episodes and reflections at agodwecouldbelievein.substack.com

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A binfire? Bit harsh? Not unless you’ve read the thing… Here Dr Charlotte Naylor Davis takes us on a tour of the Bible to see if we can find an example of a marriage we’d actually want to emulate.

Content warning: This series covers issues of sexual relationships, abuse, gender and identity, so listener discretion is advised. In particular, this episode contains references to sexual violence, rape and femicide as depicted in the Old Testament. Please look after yourselves.

The modern church likes to appeal to something called the ‘biblical doctrine of marriage’ but the evidence for such a thing feels a little thin on the ground. We examine the examples of attitudes towards marriage found in the Old Testament texts and ask what we should be doing with the ancient erotica of Songs of Solomon.

We then explore marriage in the New Testament. Many of our biblical ideas about marriage come from the writing of Paul, so we unpick some of his teaching and motivations. Crucially, how wise is it to create eternal rules from the ideas of a man who was convinced the world was about to end?

Coming up

Our next Q&A episode is on 10 November, so if you’d like to ask a question on anything you’ve heard from the podcast so far, then make sure you get your question to us by Friday 31 October to feature. Contact us via email, social media or our Substack page.

Episode 4 – The binfire rages on – is released on Monday 24 November. Simon will be picking up the batten and running headlong through two millenia of Church history to explain how we arrived at our present day conception of marriage.

About A God We Could Believe In:

A frank and honest look at Christianity as we find it today. We’re examining the things the church says and does that are embarrassing, confusing or even downright offensive. In other religious contexts, your questions might be forbidden but not here. So whether you’re a lifelong churchgoer with the scars to prove it, or you’ve never entered a church and are just interested in the debate, this is a safe space for you.

New episodes are released every other Monday.

Support the project by sharing it widely and join our Substack community for bonus episodes and reflections at agodwecouldbelievein.substack.com

Stay in touch

Email: agodwecouldbelievein@gmail.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/agodwecouldbelievein

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