We have so much skewed understanding in the realm of christian sexuality, i'm not even sure we, we even know where to begin. I i know, just over a year ago, i wel golly, it would have probly been two or three years ago now. I wrote a a golli is prid vng, longer than that. I'm getting old. Im, bt, when i first moved up here, ye hid in had been more like six years ago, now that i think about it. It was my first two years and campus ministry. I was so struck by the amount of sexuality conversation that i was having with students, and the lack of anywhere to go in tho church to have that conversation, that i wrote it was going to be an eight part a blog series. I actualy had to stop. I stopped for four parts in and just really didn't feel like i was the authority or my something was off. And i still haven't felt like necessarily, to this day, have the green light to that. God has given me the nudge. Tat's o cad. I just don't feel something's off. I'm not sure what it is. Im, and so i'm going to be actually reading for our discussion groups, i'm going to be reading those posts. So a little teaser for those that come to to discussion group, i'm going to read those posts im aloud for the people. I feel like that's a safe space. I'm not goingto read em on the podcast. That's hypocritical of me. I just got done talking about how we don't talk about it, and i want to talk about it a little bit here. I want to be honest. That's part of the problem. We're not honest. I we're not honest about this stuff. But i'm not sure how honest i want to be and how much of a public forum. So i won't be sharing those blog posts here. This is a topic that we've proven am people lose their jobs over. That's unfortunate. That's actually part of the problem. That's it's a major part of the problem. Pastors can't, we can't learn about this. We can't wrestle with this. We can't talk about it, because if we do, and if we happen to say the wrong thing, we lose our jobs. We all know it em and it's charged politically. It's charged morally. It's a and it's only getting worse. The less we talk about it, the worse it becomes. But obviously, i'm ranting, songing. Let me move on a to avoid a rant, let me just a say that we need to discuss healthy sexuality more within the christian discussion, a song of songs proves it. If we need i if we need proof, this is the book. Hand the book to any married couple who has been married for at least a few years, and they'll tell you that the book is just full of sexually poetry. Young jewish boys were not even allowed to read this book until, i believe, they had their barmia and were of marital age. That's how sexually charged this book was. And all the jews knew it. And so young boys, this was one book that they were not allowed to read and memorize until later. Wasn't even a part of the canon until later. But it's a pretty short book, so it

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