Take Back Your Conscience (#957)
A listener asks Kyle and Wayne to return to an encouragement they made in a previous podcast about taking back your conscience if you have abdicated it to someone else. The conscience is where the Spirit writes God's desires on our hearts and following our conscience instead of taking our cues from a spiritual leader, author, or denomination. This is how we learn to follow God's Spirit. Most of our rationalizations are to avoid our conscience and justify what we wanted to do. By doing so, we miss the beauty and joy of walking alongside God in the power of a clean conscience
Podcast Notes:
- The video recording of this podcast.
- Wayne's Blog on "Is God Vengeful?"
- URGENT! Helping the Orphanage in Kenya
- Read Wayne's newest book: It's Time
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The beginning of this podcast episode was very bizarre for any Scottish and British people listening. As a Scot, a kilt is traditional attire for a man and it’s considered normal, especially on formal occasions in Scotland, for men to wear. To hear Wayne call Kyle a “drag queen” for wearing it, even in jest, was a bit offensive and upsetting for my Scottish ears. A kilt is a man’s attire here, not a woman’s. Whereas a drag queen would be wearing the opposite gender’s clothes so it’s definitely not drag for a man to be wearing a kilt.
At a wedding in Scotland (and sometimes in other parts of the UK) for example, the men would be wearing kilts, not the women. So to hear it treated with embarrassment, shame and ridicule that a man was wearing a kilt was jarring to say the least. Remember that you have an international audience! It wasn’t nice to hear the casual mockery of another culture.
I’m so sorry our early bit of the this conversation came across as mockery to you or your culture. Most assuredly, we did not intend to ridicule those who wear kilts in other cultures; it just does have a bit of humor when translated into ours. I wish now we hadn’t started off that way and hope you hear our heartfelt apology . As an explanation not an excuse, the ‘drag queen’ comment had nothing to do with Scottish culture but a huge issue in our current culture wars, influencing the current election. Please accept our heartfelt apologies. Since this podcast is off-the-cuff we are not always sensitive to how our humor will translate in other cultures. But comments like this truly help.