Dr. Juli (Juli) Slattery

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830 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex · Why So Many Young People Feel Confused About Sexuality, #613 · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

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If I had this experience that kids are having today of there's nothing to tether yourself to, it's all about creating or finding that perfect label that explains what you're experiencing, man, I can't even imagine where I'd be.

So I think there's a part of us, particularly if you're in the older generation, that you just want to have a knee-jerk reaction to this, like,

This is crazy.

This is all made up.

What are these kids doing?

But adolescence and teen years and even young adulthood is such a confusing time.

And when the culture you're around is sort of exacerbating that confusion, not giving you any answers, but telling you to look internally to magnify your experiences and feelings, it's got to just be so disorienting.

Yeah, that's well said.

And, you know, we are talking from a distinctly Christian perspective for most of our listeners on this podcast.

And some of, I think, what applies here, and it doesn't just apply to this conversation, but to a lot of conversations about romance, sexuality, marriage, is what are the cultural assumptions that fuel this that are not aligned with biblical assumptions?

And you mentioned a few of them, like what is identity and how do we define who we are?

This is a relatively new evolution of humanity.

These terms, even the terms like homosexual and heterosexual,

didn't exist until the late 1800s.

And then to get so specific about describing exactly my experience of attractions and romance and attachment, this all is evolving in real time.

So how did people navigate questions of identity, particularly people of faith,

When sure, they might not have had attractions or they might have been same-sex attracted or they might have struggled with gender.

How did they navigate those questions before this evolution of language?

And is that a healthier, I guess, assumption to work towards rather than just accepting the assumptions of our culture that your sexual experiences and desires and your thoughts are such a key part of what defines what it means to be you?

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