Why the Church Should Be LGBTQ+ Affirming With Tom and Alexa Oord

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

Tom Oord is back! Dr. Thomas Oord and his daughter Alexa compiled and edited a book called Why the Church of the Nazarene Should be Fully LGBTQ+ Affirming." We wanted to talk to them about the book because everyone in the church (not just the Church of the Nazarene) is talking about human sexuality and whether or not the church should be LGBTQ+ affirming.
LGBTQ+ inclusion and affirmation is something that's really important to us, and we love making space to have these much-needed conversations with scholars and, more importantly, queer people in and around the church to keep moving this essential conversation forward.
For more on this topic, check out our previous episodes from Season 2: LGBTQ, the Church, and Why We're Affirming, Heavy Burdens: Interview with Bridget Eileen Rivera (Part 1), Heavy Burdens: Interview with Bridget Eileen Rivera (Part 2), and LGBTQ Christians, Shame, and Love: Interview with Dawne Moon and Theresa Tobin.
In this episode, we tasted Little Elliot, a blueberry session mead from Manic Meadery. Jump to 7:05 to skip the tasting.
You can find the transcript for this episode here.
Content note: this episode contains explicit discussion of sex and sexuality.

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1. Why the Church Should Be LGBTQ+ Affirming With Tom and Alexa Oord (00:00:00)

2. Beverage Tasting (00:03:36)

3. Interview (00:07:05)