Well hey friend, this is Julie Slattery and let me welcome you to Java with Julie.

How did you feel about your body when you were growing up?

You know it's normal for all kids and I think especially adolescents to have some awkwardness

and insecurities about their bodies, but unfortunately discomfort specifically with your gender

and sexualities become an even more confusing issue for many kids and teens as progressive

narratives, puts so much emphasis on self-discovery.

Some of the most pressing questions from parents and ministry leaders revolve around this idea

of how we lay the foundation of God's good design for sex and gender.

Well, that's where we're headed in my conversation today with Francy Winslow.

Francy is my friend, she is a speaker, podcaster, and now she's a songwriter.

She and her husband Wyatt are the parents of six young children.

Francy teaches out of her own experience, really how she's allowed God's work in her life

and journey to impact the way she talks to her kids about God's creation, about sex,

and about their bodies.

So grab your Java and join Francy and me at the coffee shop.

As we discuss some of the creative ways she has integrated biblical sexuality into her

parenting.

Hey Francy, thanks so much for being back on Java with Julie.

I feel like to give some people history, I don't even remember when you and I first connected

maybe 18 months ago, somebody said, you have to meet Francy Winslow, like she's doing

similar work to you, I think you'd be very like-minded, and I interviewed you way back then,

and since then we've really struck up a great relationship and friendship and just been

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