What Conservative LGBTQ+ Christians Can Teach Us About Love

About this episode

Dawne Moon and Theresa Tobin discuss their book Choosing Love and the insights gained from their research on conservative LGBTQ+ Christians.

Text us your questions! Dawne Moon and Theresa Tobin are back to discuss their book Choosing Love, which represents the culmination of their research over the last several years into the community of conservative LGBTQ+ Christians. This book expands on many of the topics we covered in our first conversation while adding insightful material on the varied ways this community understands their conservative Christian identity, how it intersects with other aspects of their identities, how they und...

People in this episode

Hosts: Randy Knie, Kyle Whitaker

Guests: Dawne Moon, Theresa Tobin

Topics covered

• LGBTQ+ Christians
• conservative identity
• love
• Christianity
• identity intersectionality

Keywords

• LGBTQ+
• Christians
• love
• conservative
• identity
• research
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Choosing Love

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