The Bridge Between Us: A Guide For Christian Parents Navigating the LGBTQ Conversation

This episode explores the quiet courage needed for parents to trust God and step back into life while their child's story remains unresolved.

This episode features an interview with Mark Nelson discussing the importance of sharing messages of hope, truth, and spiritual freedom through Christian platforms.

This episode features an interview with Nate Oyloe discussing the concept of 'pray the gay away' and how parents can respond when their children feel God isn't listening, based on personal experiences and ministry work.

Host Melinda Patrick interviews Alex McFarland at the National Religious Broadcasting Conference about Christian ministries, broadcasting, and their work with Restored Hope Network and American Family Radio.

This episode focuses on helping Christian parents care for their own emotional and spiritual health while navigating relationships with LGBTQ-identified loved ones without compromising biblical beliefs.

This episode explores how parents can maintain faithfulness and spiritual grounding while navigating unresolved, painful parenting journeys without clear resolutions.

This episode features Ken Williams discussing how parents can support their LGBTQ-identified children with love and truth through Christian ministry and personal experience.

This episode features an interview with author Mary DeMuth about finding joy and spiritual growth as Christian parents navigate their children embracing LGBT identities, focusing on walking with grace and truth.

This episode explores how parents can navigate the tension between controlling outcomes and maintaining love in their parenting journeys, focusing on spiritual and emotional steadiness.

This episode offers a gentle, reflective pause at year-end, encouraging listeners to release pressure to resolve or explain difficult experiences and instead simply breathe before moving forward.

Mike Manzie shares his personal healing journey and introduces the SHAPE journaling method to help Christian parents of LGBTQ-identified children process pain and find spiritual recovery.

This episode features Laura Perry Smaltz sharing her powerful testimony of transformation from living as transgender for nine years to being redeemed by God, emphasizing that no one is beyond rescue.

This episode features an interview with June Hunt, founder of Hope for the Heart, discussing biblical and practical approaches to resolving family conflicts with grace and truth.

This episode features an interview with Tony and Alisa DeLorenzo, authors of 'The Six Pillars of Intimacy', discussing how to strengthen marriage through challenges like grief and blended family dynamics.

This episode offers comfort and guidance to parents struggling with unspoken grief over a living child, emphasizing faith and validation in their pain.

This episode features Sarah Sedgwick discussing her ministry helping parents navigate relationships with LGBTQ-identified children, drawing from her personal experience of leaving the LGBTQ community and her faith-based approach.

The host shares her experience completing a 60-mile breast cancer walk to illustrate the importance of having a strong support team when facing daunting challenges, relating it to navigating relationships with LGBTQ-identified loved ones through a biblical perspective.

This episode explores how God gently invites parents to rise again and find renewal after seasons of grief and emotional struggle in unresolved parenting journeys.

Host Melinda interviews January Littlejohn, a fellow parent, about navigating a child's LGBTQ identity within a Christian framework, discussing a documentary on gender transformation and community support events.

This episode explores how to love authentically without losing oneself, focusing on boundaries, humility, and enduring through difficult relationships.

This episode explores how to set healthy boundaries in parenting to protect love rather than punish, focusing on practical guidance for parents in difficult or unresolved relationships.

This episode explores how to build a support team for healing while navigating relationships with LGBT-identified loved ones from a biblical perspective.

This episode offers a short Thanksgiving pause to provide comfort and spiritual realignment for listeners experiencing family pain and emotional struggles during the holiday.

This episode concludes a conversation with Laura Perry-Smaltz about her journey from identifying as transgender to finding healing and redemption through faith, exploring themes of self-hatred, identity, and transformation.

This episode features an interview with Ann Edward, executive director of Restored Hope Network, discussing her role in providing faith-based resources for sexual and relational wholeness.

This episode introduces a reflective series for parents experiencing grief and faith challenges due to their children's choices, focusing on staying faithful and emotionally steady without shame.

This episode discusses the rising issue of porn addiction in families and churches, featuring guest Barb Winter to explore hope and healing for parents and spouses dealing with this challenge.

This episode explores how parents can rebuild joy while honoring their pain during difficult, unresolved parenting journeys.

This episode features journalist Brandon Showalter discussing his journey into covering gender ideology and offering support to Christian parents navigating these issues with their children.

This episode features Denise Shick sharing her personal story of healing and redemption while living with a transgender parent, framed within a Christian ministry context.

This episode explores how parents can maintain faith and stay spiritually anchored during difficult, unresolved parenting journeys when trust in God feels fragile.

This episode focuses on providing emotional and spiritual care for parents who are enduring difficult, unresolved parenting journeys.

This episode explores how parents can maintain active faith and spiritual anchoring while navigating difficult, unresolved parenting journeys.

This episode promotes the Hope 2025 conference for Christians dealing with same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria, offering both virtual and in-person gatherings in Georgia.

This episode continues Patti Haidt's personal story of spiritual transformation, focusing on how to minister with grace and truth to the LGBTQ community and emphasizing God's faithfulness.

This episode features an interview with Emily Oakley about her personal journey through same-sex attraction and codependency, finding healing and identity in Christ, and her ministry work.

This episode provides biblical guidance for parents on discussing LGBTQ issues with younger children when an older sibling identifies as LGBTQ, focusing on equipping families through faith-based engagement.

This episode offers Christian parents hope and practical advice on maintaining faith while loving a child who identifies as LGBTQ, focusing on shifting from feelings of powerlessness to actionable steps.

This episode continues a conversation with Ken Williams about how parents can use prayer, humility, and compassion to build connection with their LGBTQ-identified children.

This episode features Joe and Renee Dallas discussing how to heal a marriage impacted by homosexuality, focusing on Christian perspectives and family dynamics.

This episode features a conversation with returning guest Jenn Hand about finding hope and navigating faith while loving a child who identifies as LGBTQ, coinciding with the launch of her new book.

This episode offers guidance and comfort to parents struggling to connect with their children during the holidays when their kids have chosen unexpected or difficult life paths.

Mark Nelson continues his testimony about a severe medical crisis where doctors recommended an induced coma and ventilator, highlighting his spiritual struggle and reliance on faith.

The host celebrates the 100th episode of her podcast by reflecting on its mission to connect faith, family, and identity while thanking listeners and guests for their support.

This episode features Lindsey Kiser discussing a spiritual invitation from God for parents, families, and church communities to join a faith-based movement.

This episode features an interview with Patty Height discussing personal struggles with same-sex attraction and gender confusion, framed within a faith-based perspective on overcoming lies and finding hope.

This episode explores how parents can recognize God's presence in difficult parenting journeys without forcing positivity or pretending to be okay.

Host Melinda Patrick interviews her friend Christy Summers about her personal story of transformation and healing through faith, connected to the Restored Hope Network ministry.

This episode features January Littlejohn discussing practical strategies for Christian parents navigating their child's LGBTQ identity, focusing on nurturing family relationships at home.

Host Melinda Patrick discusses how Christian parents can support LGBTQ-identified loved ones while maintaining their faith, answering a listener's question and promoting the Restored Hope Network's virtual conference.