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June 2, 2025 49 mins

Renewed & Transformed S1 Ep 3 | Bonnie Pue: Embracing Biblical Sexuality, Identity & Freedom in Christ (for YT)

In Season 1, Episode 3 of the Renewed and Transformed Podcast, host Kyla Gillespie and co-host Jonathan Bryden sit down with Bonnie Pue—speaker, disciple-maker, and co-founder of The Union Movement. Bonnie shares her journey from church-kid innocence, to betrayal and confusion about sexuality, to discovering the healing, life-giving design of God. Alongside her husband Brian, Bonnie now equips churches and families to talk about sexuality, identity, and relationships with both unwavering truth and Christ-like compassion.

This candid conversation unpacks how our deepest identity is found not in shifting feelings or cultural labels but in being sons and daughters of a loving Father—and why leaning into God’s design sets us free.

 

Key Highlights

  • From Confusion to Calling: How a 15-year-old church scandal shook Bonnie’s trust—and how God later turned that pain into purpose.
  • Birth of The Union Movement: Why Bonnie and Brian launched a ministry to help the next generation navigate sex, identity, and relationships through a gospel lens.
  • Identity That Anchors: “Just because I feel it doesn’t mean I am it.” Bonnie explains why staking identity on anything temporal eventually fractures—and how baptism imagery points us to a deeper, eternal ID card in Christ.
  • Freedom in Design: Elizabeth Elliot’s “bird and wings” metaphor—what happens when we lean into, rather than resist, our God-given sex.
  • Preparing Food for the Hungry, Not the Critic: Tips for pastors, speakers, and parents who fear “saying it wrong” in today’s polarized climate.
  • Parent Game-Plan: Why relationship is your greatest leverage; lowering the sails in the storm; and when drastic steps (school moves, environment changes) may be needed.

Support and Follow her at:

@theunionmovement @bonniepue www.theunionmovement.com

 

If you or someone you love is wrestling with questions of gender, sexuality, or identity, this episode offers honest dialogue, biblical wisdom, and hope-filled strategies for walking in freedom.

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