Bridgetown Audio Podcast The Good News About Our Bodies: Sexuality, Acquired Taste
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Mar 23, 2026 They discuss how bodies and sacraments point beyond themselves to deeper spiritual realities. The conversation traces sexuality from the Garden to redemption, exploring chastity as restored desire rather than mere rule-keeping. They offer a third way between purity culture and permissiveness called acquired taste, using fasting, feasting, marriage, and celibacy as embodied practices that form longing for the promised feast.
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Charcuterie Mess Framed As Eternal Love
- Tyler Staten tells a Valentine's Day story where his son spilled a charcuterie board, turning a messy attempt at love into something cherished.
- He uses the anecdote to illustrate that loving attempts, even messy, are charged with eternity and worth honoring.
Lust Is Distorted Sight Not Just Behavior
- Lust is primarily a distortion of sight: desiring a created thing as an end rather than a window to God.
- Bethany Allen unpacks Genesis 3 showing Eve 'saw' the fruit through the serpent's lens and then 'tasted' that distortion.
Fast To Acquire Taste For The Feast
- Practice fasting to redirect desire toward Jesus's promised wedding feast and acquire taste for ultimate satisfaction.
- Tyler Staten explains Jesus' Last Supper vow to refrain from the vine until the kingdom as model for renunciation.