The 4T's and the Church

Join Richard and Tom as they discuss various topics related to homosexuality, culture, storytelling, the Christian community, Your Other Brothers, and The 4T'S and the Church,

Listen to Richard and two signers of the Nashville Statement talk about Statement and how to relate with it whether you agree with it or disagree with it. Here is a link of Side B christians who signed the statement and responses to critics of the statement. https://cbmw.org/topics/the-nashville-statement/responding-to-cts-editorial-against-the-nashville-statement/

Professor Thoennes and Richard dive into the complexity of same-sex attraction. Why is George Clooney handsome. The locker room, physical transparency. The goodness of beauty.

“Many men who have high same-sex needs eventually decide: “Being in the gay lifestyle is better then being in the church, Because in the gay life, you go into a bar and everyone hugs and kisses you. You go to a church, you don't get hugged and kissed by anyone. Some of them, the more artistic, the more politically astute, or maybe the more sensitive ones will do it......Christians are talking heads or praying heads. They can't get down to where you really need to be. Your skin is your largest organ in your body and they are afraid of it. They are afraid to touch, they are afraid to love, they are afraid to sacrifice, afraid to get messy. “Oh my god, what do you mean its going to take 10 years for you to get better? I don't have time that kind of time.” So the gay life appears to be a whole lot more love, acceptance, and laughter." The quote above is from a book called A Bigger World Yet, Faith, Brotherhood, & Same - Sex Needs - It's written by Tim Timmerman

Richard and his friends discuss emotional and spiritual transparency, and how to engage it to love guys who struggle with same sex attraction

Richard and his friends discuss physical transparency, specifically expressed through nudity, and how it can be used to show love to guys who struggle with same sex attraction

Richard and his friends discuss how the church can use touch to show love to guys who struggle with homosexuality

Get to know Richard Padilla and some of his closest friends as they discuss how the church can love guys struggling with homosexuality