Dr. Juli Slattery

Not combative, but like more here's the line in the sand, like people who don't agree are kind of coming after us.

I feel so strongly about this, Hannah, because I've become convinced reading the New Testament that Jesus really, really cares about unity.

That there's one church, there's one spirit.

Jesus died on the cross it says in Ephesians to tear down the barrier of hostility that he would reconcile in himself us to God like the unity of there's one body of Christ and

We'll talk about in this podcast how theology is important, how discerning truth is important.

But I think in our pursuit of discerning truth, we are just stabbing the body of Christ.

We're just cutting off pieces of the body of Christ.

So tell us how you see that happening.

Boy, I think there's so many examples.

I mean, we're such a divided culture and we're such a divided, like even Protestantism and all of it, like religion.

There's tons of examples, but the water that I swim in is around sexuality.

And so you have...

people within this field of Christian sexuality that despise each other, that write books and have podcasts and blogs and the whole purpose of them is like, I want to tell you why this person is wrong and I want to tell you why not to trust this person and why this author is horrible and

And then I get emails and people coming to me and saying, wait, here's two people that I've learned from and I respect, and now they can't be in the same room together.

Yes.

And not just Christians, but I would say committed to biblical truth.

Yeah.

They are followers of Jesus Christ.

Yeah.

So I see this happening in the sphere of sexuality related to how we nuance the LGBT conversation.