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I'm raising money for a coaching cohort that will help me build a shame-free Christian sexuality education ministry designed to help churches and ministry settings move beyond purity culture and harmful silence.
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A poem I wrote to support this ministry-
They told me holiness looked like covered shoulders, crossed legs, and silence.
They handed me shame stitched into Sunday school lessons, wrapped in purity rings, threaded through whispers like: “Don’t tempt boys.” “Good girls don’t want that.” “Your body is dangerous.”
Dangerous.
As if skin could be a weapon simply for existing. As if a crop top could summon evil.
As if cleavage could cancel grace. As if desire itself was a stain too dirty for God to touch.
But tell me— who taught us to fear the bodies God called good?
Who decided holiness could not live in hips,
in thighs, in sweat, in longing?
Who decided arousal was rebellion? That nakedness was automatically shame? That sex only becomes sacred once the government signs paperwork and a pastor says amen?
Who made these rules?
Because I have read the stories. I have seen a God who sculpted flesh from dust with holy hands. A God who called creation good before a single thread of clothing ever existed.
Bodies were never the problem. Control was.
Society fears bodies it cannot police. Bodies that dance too freely. Bodies that love too openly. Bodies that refuse to shrink themselves into “appropriate.”
Appropriate according to who?
A culture that profits off insecurity while condemning pleasure? A church that teaches shame before anatomy? A world that sexualizes bodies and then blames them for being seen?
No.
I refuse to believe God created nerve endings by accident. I refuse to believe desire is demonic. I refuse to believe consent, tenderness, safety, respect, and love could ever be sinful simply because they do not fit someone else’s comfort zone.
If there is consent—real consent. If there is safety. Respect.Care. Love.
Then where is the crime?
Why are we still teaching people to fear themselves?
This ministry—this work—is about tearing shame from the altar where society placed it.
It is about saying: your body is not dirty. Your desire is not a curse. Your sexuality is not the opposite of sacred.
It IS sacred.
Holy does not mean untouched. Holy means worthy of reverence.
And bodies—queer bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, scarred bodies, trans bodies, aging bodies, desiring bodies—
are worthy of reverence.
Because God does not blush at the humanity God created.
We do.
And maybe it’s time to stop apologizing
for being alive inside our skin.
Maybe it’s time to preach a gospel where shame is not holiness, where purity is not fear, where sexuality is not exiled from spirituality.
Let’s commit to loving ourselves as God created us.
As good, as sacred, as sexual- as unashamed.
Maybe it’s time to remember:
Our bodies were never meant to be prisons.
They were temples.
Breathing. Feeling. Wanting.
Sacred.
May we learn to revere the first place we were ever created to exist in.
Our holy, sacred, and blessed temples.
Hey everyone!
My name is Jenna Couch, I’m a pastor, wife, mother and activist and I need your help to found a new ministry. Next week I am beginning a coaching cohort called The Queer Career Reinvention Lab where I will be receiving personalized coaching, career counseling, and accountability and support. And why am I doing this? Because I’m launching a faith-based sex education ministry focused on shame-free instruction and body positivity to help people heal the rift that so many people of faith feel between their sexuality and their faith. Please give and give generously to help me bring this ministry to life. Give $30, $60, $100 or more to help make this training happen?
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FULLER STORY
The Queer Career Reinvention Lab was founded by Katie Brunner with the purpose of helping people to start new creative inventions on their own. In this 8 week program there are four basic parts.
1. Career Reality Audit
2. Identity Reclamation
3. Possibility Expansion
4. Exit Strategy
VIP includes: *2 private 1:1 sessions, *personalized career roadmap review, *ongoing voice/text support *deeper transition strategy.
Cost of Training: $4500
$1500 training expenses: Estimated Breakdown:
The end goal, then, is to use this training to develop an inclusive, faith-based sexuality education ministry that equips me to create and teach shame-free, body-positive resources for ministry settings. Whether through adapting existing frameworks or building an original curriculum of my own, my vision is to offer compassionate, affirming education that helps youth and adults explore sexuality, relationships, identity, and faith without fear or shame. This work will focus on helping people heal the divide between spirituality and sexuality by creating spaces where both can be honored as sacred, healthy parts of human life.
Thanks for your consideration, and please give and give GENEROUSLY!
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A poem I wrote to support this ministry-
They told me holiness looked like covered shoulders, crossed legs, and silence.
They handed me shame stitched into Sunday school lessons, wrapped in purity rings, threaded through whispers like: “Don’t tempt boys.” “Good girls don’t want that.” “Your body is dangerous.”
Dangerous.
As if skin could be a weapon simply for existing. As if a crop top could summon evil.
As if cleavage could cancel grace. As if desire itself was a stain too dirty for God to touch.
But tell me— who taught us to fear the bodies God called good?
Who decided holiness could not live in hips,
in thighs, in sweat, in longing?
Who decided arousal was rebellion? That nakedness was automatically shame? That sex only becomes sacred once the government signs paperwork and a pastor says amen?
Who made these rules?
Because I have read the stories. I have seen a God who sculpted flesh from dust with holy hands. A God who called creation good before a single thread of clothing ever existed.
Bodies were never the problem. Control was.
Society fears bodies it cannot police. Bodies that dance too freely. Bodies that love too openly. Bodies that refuse to shrink themselves into “appropriate.”
Appropriate according to who?
A culture that profits off insecurity while condemning pleasure? A church that teaches shame before anatomy? A world that sexualizes bodies and then blames them for being seen?
No.
I refuse to believe God created nerve endings by accident. I refuse to believe desire is demonic. I refuse to believe consent, tenderness, safety, respect, and love could ever be sinful simply because they do not fit someone else’s comfort zone.
If there is consent—real consent. If there is safety. Respect.Care. Love.
Then where is the crime?
Why are we still teaching people to fear themselves?
This ministry—this work—is about tearing shame from the altar where society placed it.
It is about saying: your body is not dirty. Your desire is not a curse. Your sexuality is not the opposite of sacred.
It IS sacred.
Holy does not mean untouched. Holy means worthy of reverence.
And bodies—queer bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies, scarred bodies, trans bodies, aging bodies, desiring bodies—
are worthy of reverence.
Because God does not blush at the humanity God created.
We do.
And maybe it’s time to stop apologizing
for being alive inside our skin.
Maybe it’s time to preach a gospel where shame is not holiness, where purity is not fear, where sexuality is not exiled from spirituality.
Let’s commit to loving ourselves as God created us.
As good, as sacred, as sexual- as unashamed.
Maybe it’s time to remember:
Our bodies were never meant to be prisons.
They were temples.
Breathing. Feeling. Wanting.
Sacred.
May we learn to revere the first place we were ever created to exist in.
Our holy, sacred, and blessed temples.
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Jun 16