Is transgenderism a threat? A disease? Something beautiful? What does our church believe? As part of our Culture & Christianity series, Pastor Steve Yates leads a conversation about identity, gender, and the realities of our broken world, in light of the good news of Jesus. This week we began discussing the first of three “lenses” people look at trans issues through: “diversity.” We discussed how our culture has largely shifted to a worldview valuing personal choice and agency, and how with this in mind, it makes sense that our culture wishes to promote expressions of this such as trans movements. We also analyzed how we as God’s people have reacted to this shift with negative emotions, leading us to conflict instead of love. For supplemental materials, check out the episodes at intown.org/ccpodcast.