{"id":3618,"date":"2019-08-12T14:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2025-07-17T19:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:02:43","slug":"becket-cook-on-a-change-of-affection-a-gay-mans-incredible-story-of-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/becket-cook-on-a-change-of-affection-a-gay-mans-incredible-story-of-redemption","title":{"rendered":"Becket Cook on A Change of Affection: A Gay Man&#8217;s Incredible Story of Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul spoke with Becket Cook for more than 40 minutes on Thursday, August 8th, 2019. The complete audio is below in two parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART ONE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/becketcook_1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PART TWO:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/becketcook_2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TODAY&#8217;S GUEST:  <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.becketcook.com\/home\">Becket Cook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Becket Cook moved to Los Angeles after college to pursue a career in writing and acting, having some success in both.&nbsp;Becket also created his own successful menswear brand. He currently works as a production designer in the fashion world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Becket recently received his master\u2019s degree from Talbot School of Theology (Biola University) and spends much of his time in ministry speaking on homosexuality and culture at churches, universities, and conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His memoir, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Change-Affection-Incredible-Story-Redemption\/dp\/1400212308\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">A Change of Affection: A Gay Man&#8217;s Incredible Story of Redemption<\/a>,<\/em>&nbsp;was released on July 30, 2019 by Thomas Nelson (Harper Collins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Homosexuality Was My Identity\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8a5I0yv0Dw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WORLD MAG: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2015\/09\/freedom_for_the_same_sex_attracted\">Freedom for the Same-Sex Attracted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul spoke with Becket Cook for more than 40 minutes on Thursday, August 8th, 2019. The complete audio is below in two parts: PART ONE: PART TWO: TODAY&#8217;S GUEST: Becket Cook Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Becket Cook moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/becket-cook-on-a-change-of-affection-a-gay-mans-incredible-story-of-redemption\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}