{"id":32294,"date":"2025-11-25T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=32294"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:37:51","slug":"karen-keen-ron-pierce-christlike-acceptance-across-deep-difference","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/gravitycommons.com\/es\/podcast\/karen-keen-ron-pierce-christlike-acceptance-across-deep-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Keen &#038; Ron Pierce: Christlike Acceptance Across Deep Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked with Ronald Pierce and Karen Keen about a different way to approach the disagreement over LGBTQ affirmation and inclusion in the church. In their book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/75288\/9781540967596\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Christlike Acceptance across Deep Difference<\/em><\/a>, they bring together a broad range of contributors&#8211;scholarly and pastoral; affirming and traditionalist; evangelical, mainline, and Catholic&#8211;who demonstrate a more constructive response to LGBTQ concerns. Despite their differences, the contributors unite in their commitment to biblical authority and Christlike love of neighbor. They invite the church to join them in this new and better way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen R. Keen<\/strong>\u00a0(ThM, Duke Divinity School) is a biblical scholar and spiritual care provider at the Redwood Center for Spiritual Care and Education. Her books include\u00a0<em>Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Word of a Humble God<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ronald W. 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