# “Sex, Lies, and Secularism” with Nancy Pearcy, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 25 Aug 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/25/26), Hank interviews award-winning author Nancy Pearcy about her article, “Sex, Lies, and Secularism” in the Christian Research Journal on the consequences of secular humanism and the way youth have become secular in their behavior. Hank also answers the following questions: What is the biblical protocol for marriage? Must a priest or pastor officiate the wedding? Gary - San Jose, CA (16:12) What about the practice of an evangelist prophesying over the life of a person and telling what will happen in the future? Joshua - El Paso, TX (19:27) What happens when we die in the present? Doris - St. Louis, MO (21:47)

## Transcript

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[0:48] Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Randy. Want to make a couple
[0:50] Speaker 2: of comments about secular humanism. Nancy Pearcy writes about this
[0:56] Speaker 2: in the Christian Research Journal. There's a terrific article title sex,
[1:00] Speaker 2: Lies and Secularism, and she is pointing out the extreme
[1:08] Speaker 2: consequences to young people, even Christian young people, who are
[1:14] Speaker 2: sincere in their belief but have become very secular in
[1:19] Speaker 2: their behavior. Nancy Pearcy has a book out called Saving Leonardo,
[1:25] Speaker 2: and the article in the journal is based on that book.
[1:29] Speaker 2: But she's also the author of the best selling award
[1:32] Speaker 2: winning Total Truth Liberating Christianity from its cultural captivity. I
[1:38] Speaker 2: love her writing, I love her work, and I appreciate
[1:42] Speaker 2: her being on the biblance Man broadcast today.
[1:44] Speaker 3: Hi, Nancy, Well, Hello Hank. Good to be here.
[1:47] Speaker 2: Your article is at once troubling and enlightening. You talk
[1:51] Speaker 2: about the impact of secularism in the whole sexual morass
[1:57] Speaker 2: that we find ourselves in today, and particular the distinction
[2:02] Speaker 2: now that you make with respect to Christian young people
[2:05] Speaker 2: who are buying into secular behavior.
[2:09] Speaker 3: That's right. The surprising story that I uncovered as I
[2:13] Speaker 3: was researching this article was an article by a young Christian. Moment,
[2:18] Speaker 3: I didn't realize she was a Christian at first. I
[2:20] Speaker 3: was just googling, you know, on the Internet, trying to
[2:22] Speaker 3: find a story, and I found a story about by
[2:26] Speaker 3: a student who is recommending to college students how to
[2:29] Speaker 3: have what she called a happy hookup. And she advised
[2:33] Speaker 3: college students that if they really, if they just take
[2:36] Speaker 3: a moment and get mutual agreement before engaging in sexual acts,
[2:40] Speaker 3: in her words, then the whole hookup experience will be
[2:43] Speaker 3: more positive for everyone involved. Says Only. After I read
[2:47] Speaker 3: that that, I glanced and I read a bio and
[2:49] Speaker 3: I discovered that the author attends a very conservative Christian college,
[2:54] Speaker 3: and that is what gave me my wake up call
[2:56] Speaker 3: that this is not just a problem for a secular
[2:59] Speaker 3: peace people. It's a problem for Christian people who have
[3:03] Speaker 3: bought into the secular mindset that we have taught our
[3:06] Speaker 3: children just say no, we give them rules, but what
[3:09] Speaker 3: they really need today are not just rules, but reasons.
[3:12] Speaker 3: They need to know the biblical worldview, rationale behind biblical morality.
[3:17] Speaker 3: Otherwise they're going to be like this young woman and
[3:19] Speaker 3: simply give out to the secular mindset in terms of
[3:22] Speaker 3: their views. They may go to church, they may go
[3:25] Speaker 3: to Sunday School and Bible study and even Christian college
[3:28] Speaker 3: and still come out with a secular worldview.
[3:31] Speaker 2: So the idea is particularly rampant within the younger generation
[3:37] Speaker 2: that somehow or other, you can divorce your mind and
[3:42] Speaker 2: emotions from your bodily functions.
[3:45] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the key there is that they're buying into
[3:47] Speaker 3: a very fragmented, dualistic view of the human person. There
[3:52] Speaker 3: was a really heartbreaking article in the New York Times
[3:55] Speaker 3: about hooking up and explain that hooking up means there's
[3:59] Speaker 3: no commitments, no emotional connection, no personal relationship. In fact,
[4:04] Speaker 3: people call it friends with benefits, but even that is
[4:07] Speaker 3: a euphemism because they're not even really friends. The New
[4:10] Speaker 3: York Times article put it this way, you just keep
[4:12] Speaker 3: it purely sexual, and that way people don't get mixed
[4:15] Speaker 3: expectations and no one gets hurt. And then, ironically, in
[4:19] Speaker 3: the same article, it went on to quote a teenager
[4:21] Speaker 3: whose name was Melissa, who was depressed because her hookup
[4:24] Speaker 3: partner had just broken up with her, and it was
[4:27] Speaker 3: a stark example of the fact that this dualistic worldview
[4:31] Speaker 3: doesn't work. We are holistic beings. We cannot simply wall
[4:35] Speaker 3: off our physical self from our emotional and spiritual self.
[4:39] Speaker 3: And the hookup culture is expressing this fragmented, dualistic, alienated
[4:45] Speaker 3: view of the human person. And it's an open door
[4:48] Speaker 3: for Christians to make a much more positive argument that
[4:51] Speaker 3: we are whole persons. Our sexuality is designed to express
[4:55] Speaker 3: the whole commitment of our whole lives, and that is marriage.
[4:58] Speaker 3: We can present a positive way.
[5:01] Speaker 2: One of the things you point out, Nancy, in the
[5:03] Speaker 2: article is that even in churches, many young people do
[5:07] Speaker 2: not get why homosexual activity is morally wrong, and I
[5:12] Speaker 2: thought your insights here were brilliant and not often expressed
[5:16] Speaker 2: with respect to how this activity is running completely counter
[5:21] Speaker 2: the biological facts.
[5:23] Speaker 3: That's it. Most defenses against homosexuality will appeal to abstractions
[5:30] Speaker 3: like the family or the future of civilization, and those
[5:33] Speaker 3: are valid arguments, but they tend not to have much
[5:37] Speaker 3: cachet with people who are struggling to change deeply rooted,
[5:42] Speaker 3: emotionally charged behavior. They really need to see that homosexual
[5:47] Speaker 3: behavior is directly harmful to them, and the way we
[5:51] Speaker 3: need to communicate that is that homosexuality, also like the
[5:54] Speaker 3: hookup culture, expresses this fragmented view to the human person.
[5:59] Speaker 3: And you can think of it this way. Biologically, physiologically,
[6:03] Speaker 3: males and females are clearly counterparts to one another. That's
[6:06] Speaker 3: the way their sexual and their reproductive anatomy is obviously designed.
[6:11] Speaker 3: So the problem with homosexual behavior is that it overrides
[6:14] Speaker 3: that design. It implies that my physical anatomy doesn't matter,
[6:20] Speaker 3: that I can disconnect who I am biologically from who
[6:24] Speaker 3: I am in my sexual feelings and my emotional attractions,
[6:28] Speaker 3: so that I can contradict my own biology. And so
[6:31] Speaker 3: the argument we need to help people to see. This
[6:33] Speaker 3: is a profoundly disrespectful view of the body that people are.
[6:38] Speaker 3: It's a very self alienating, fragmenting effect on the human personality.
[6:42] Speaker 3: And so when we communicate it that way, I think
[6:44] Speaker 3: it helps us to communicate that we care about what
[6:47] Speaker 3: this is doing to you. You know that this expresses
[6:50] Speaker 3: our love and compassion to you. You're becoming disconnected your
[6:54] Speaker 3: body from your sexual feelings, your biological identity is male
[6:58] Speaker 3: or female, and so it gives us a chance to
[7:00] Speaker 3: communicate a much more caring approach, I think, to people
[7:03] Speaker 3: who are struggling in this area.
[7:05] Speaker 2: Another insight in this is an incredible article, by the way,
[7:08] Speaker 2: but Nancy, you point out that the redefinition of human
[7:12] Speaker 2: personhood is a purely social construction opens the door to
[7:18] Speaker 2: unlimited statism because there is no human nature that an
[7:23] Speaker 2: oppressive state could possibly offend. So this whole move towards
[7:29] Speaker 2: transgenderism has incredible consequences for a society.
[7:37] Speaker 3: The next step after homosexuality really is transgender. Once you
[7:41] Speaker 3: separate physical anatomy from your personal gender identity, then gender
[7:47] Speaker 3: identity becomes completely fluid, completely free floating, Like you said,
[7:52] Speaker 3: totally unlimited in terms of how you define it. So
[7:55] Speaker 3: let me give you an example. Two thousand and seven,
[7:58] Speaker 3: California passed the law well that required all public schools
[8:02] Speaker 3: to permit transgender students to use the restroom or locker
[8:06] Speaker 3: room of their preferred gender, regardless of their anatomical sex.
[8:10] Speaker 3: In other words, a boy who felt he was really
[8:12] Speaker 3: a girl has to be allowed to use the girl's restroom,
[8:15] Speaker 3: the girl's locker room, presumably the girl's shower room at pe.
[8:19] Speaker 3: But what was interesting about it was that the new
[8:22] Speaker 3: law redefine gender. That compared the old wording with the
[8:26] Speaker 3: new wording. The old wording still talked about gender in
[8:29] Speaker 3: terms of your sexuality, your male or female. The new
[8:32] Speaker 3: wording said, has nothing to do with what it called
[8:36] Speaker 3: your assigned sex at birth. Now, most of us think,
[8:40] Speaker 3: if the baby's a boy or a girl, that's an
[8:41] Speaker 3: anatomical fact. It's not something we assign as though it
[8:46] Speaker 3: were an arbitrary social convention. But you see, sexuality now
[8:50] Speaker 3: has become an arbitrary social convention. Biology is irrelevant. In fact,
[8:56] Speaker 3: human personality itself is a social convention. And that's where
[8:59] Speaker 3: we get to what you were talking about pretty soon,
[9:01] Speaker 3: where do we have human rights then if human rights
[9:03] Speaker 3: are based in who we are as human beings, where
[9:06] Speaker 3: there is a human nature that the state is not
[9:09] Speaker 3: to override, this has profound implications for human rights in
[9:13] Speaker 3: every area.
[9:15] Speaker 2: Nancy just want to personally tell you how much I
[9:17] Speaker 2: appreciate your work. I have learned so much from you
[9:20] Speaker 2: over the years and appreciate your contribution of the Christian
[9:24] Speaker 2: Research Journal and pray that God will continue to richly
[9:27] Speaker 2: bless and use you for his glory and for the
[9:30] Speaker 2: extension of His kingdom.
[9:31] Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Hank. I appreciate that very much. And
[9:34] Speaker 3: I will say for people who'd like to know more
[9:36] Speaker 3: about this, there's a whole chapter on it in my
[9:38] Speaker 3: book Saving Leonardo.
[9:40] Speaker 2: Thanks again, Nancy.
[9:41] Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for having me.
[9:43] Speaker 2: God bless you Nancy. And again, the article on the
[9:45] Speaker 2: Christian Research Journal by Nancy Piercy is a must read.
[9:50] Speaker 2: It is provocative sex lies and secularism. It is eye opening.
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[16:13] Speaker 2: First up as Gary in San Jose, California. Hi.
[16:16] Speaker 4: Gary, Hello, Hank, how are you?
[16:18] Speaker 2: I am good? It is a pleasure to.
[16:20] Speaker 4: Talk to you, A pleasure talk to you. I am
[16:22] Speaker 4: a Christian. I believe marriage is ordained from God for
[16:26] Speaker 4: a man and a woman. What I would like to
[16:28] Speaker 4: know is what is the biblical protocol for marriage. Does
[16:33] Speaker 4: the Bible say a priest has to marry you, a
[16:35] Speaker 4: pastor a church? How does that pan out?
[16:39] Speaker 2: Well? I think first and foremost, you need to recognize
[16:42] Speaker 2: that when you get married, you're getting married in two spheres.
[16:47] Speaker 2: They're getting married in the biblical worldview, in the body
[16:52] Speaker 2: of Christ. You're also getting married in the world, a
[16:56] Speaker 2: world to whom you are a testimony. So you can
[17:00] Speaker 2: think about baptism in this regard where you get baptized
[17:03] Speaker 2: within the body of Christ. But your baptism is not
[17:07] Speaker 2: just a testimony to believers, but a testimony to unbelievers
[17:11] Speaker 2: that you've been buried to your whole life raised to
[17:13] Speaker 2: newness of life. There's resurrection power. The same thing is
[17:16] Speaker 2: true with respect to this married ceremony, in which you
[17:21] Speaker 2: are saying to fellow believers in the presence of God,
[17:25] Speaker 2: that you are going to be committed to this woman.
[17:27] Speaker 2: You're going to forsake all others. You're going to nurture
[17:29] Speaker 2: her and cherish her and love her until death do
[17:32] Speaker 2: you part. And you're also making that proclamation in the
[17:38] Speaker 2: secular sphere as a testimony of what the oneness of
[17:42] Speaker 2: a man and a woman is as related to the
[17:46] Speaker 2: oneness of Christ in his church. So it is a microcosm,
[17:51] Speaker 2: it is an example, it is an illustration. It is
[17:54] Speaker 2: a profound truth that can penetrate a culture. So you're
[17:59] Speaker 2: not doing this in ic You're doing this as an
[18:01] Speaker 2: opportunity to minister within two contexts. The very sphere of
[18:07] Speaker 2: influence that God has given you, So you therefore bind
[18:11] Speaker 2: yourself in a church situation. Now does that have to
[18:14] Speaker 2: be in front of a priest? Does that have to
[18:17] Speaker 2: be in front of a pastor? Not necessarily, but why not?
[18:21] Speaker 2: Why not get married with a pastor officiating and doing
[18:25] Speaker 2: the vows and make this a great celebration, very much
[18:30] Speaker 2: like the celebration Christ experienced at Canaan. And why not
[18:35] Speaker 2: make this official because it is an official recognition within
[18:41] Speaker 2: the culture in which you live that has ramifications, which
[18:45] Speaker 2: is to say that your trust, your oath is binding,
[18:50] Speaker 2: not only in a spiritual sense, but also in a
[18:54] Speaker 2: secular sense. And so I would say, yes, you want
[18:57] Speaker 2: to get married with all the propriate attention of both
[19:02] Speaker 2: the church as an authority in the culture and the world,
[19:06] Speaker 2: which is ultimately a system set up that we obey
[19:11] Speaker 2: unless those laws conflict with God's laws, and in this
[19:14] Speaker 2: case they do not. So this is something that we
[19:18] Speaker 2: do in conformance to the state, and the state here
[19:22] Speaker 2: has no conflict with the spiritual or biblical worldview. Want
[19:27] Speaker 2: to go back to the phone lines, talk to Joshua
[19:30] Speaker 2: listening to al Paso, Texas. Hi, Joshua, Hi, how you
[19:33] Speaker 2: doing good?
[19:35] Speaker 5: I had a question regarding evangelists. That was an evangelist.
[19:38] Speaker 5: I went to my brother's church, and he called my
[19:41] Speaker 5: brother up to the altar and he started saying things
[19:45] Speaker 5: about my brother's life, saying way he would do and
[19:48] Speaker 5: what he was to become. And my brother that was
[19:51] Speaker 5: his first time going there, and he's not really a Christian,
[19:55] Speaker 5: he's a non believer, but I do get him to
[19:58] Speaker 5: go to church every once in a while. Well, I
[20:00] Speaker 5: was just wondering if the evantage is accurate or should
[20:06] Speaker 5: I trust that?
[20:07] Speaker 2: No. I mean, I think that the first thing that
[20:09] Speaker 2: we recognize is that God knows the future. And God
[20:13] Speaker 2: does not reveal the future to us. In his mercy
[20:17] Speaker 2: and his grace, he gives us enough light to step
[20:20] Speaker 2: into some more light. If we saw what would come
[20:24] Speaker 2: in the future, we probably wouldn't want to face the future.
[20:27] Speaker 2: So God holds the future and we trust in him.
[20:31] Speaker 2: We lean upon him day by day, and he gives
[20:33] Speaker 2: us the grace we need when we need it, and
[20:35] Speaker 2: oftentimes not a moment before. So I think it's presumptuous
[20:40] Speaker 2: when an evangelist starts talking to a non believer, telling
[20:44] Speaker 2: that non believer what his future will be. It is
[20:48] Speaker 2: a typical ploy today unfortunately. I mean, you've got people
[20:51] Speaker 2: with words of knowledge on television saying that there's a
[20:54] Speaker 2: woman with a red dress that is going to have
[20:57] Speaker 2: her back heeled or something like this. I think that
[21:00] Speaker 2: not only takes a biblical truth and reorients it in
[21:05] Speaker 2: a non biblical way, but again, I think it ends
[21:10] Speaker 2: up dragging Christ's name through the mud as opposed to
[21:13] Speaker 2: exalting God's name. Everything that we need for faith and
[21:17] Speaker 2: practice we have in the Word of God. So we
[21:20] Speaker 2: follow those principles and God leads us through circumstances and
[21:24] Speaker 2: through people. The first thing, of course, that you want
[21:26] Speaker 2: to do, especially if you call yourself an evangelist, is
[21:28] Speaker 2: communicate the evangel that transforms the life. And when the
[21:32] Speaker 2: life is transformed, everything that goes with it becomes transformed
[21:37] Speaker 2: and your life begins to take on meaning, purpose and fulfillment.
[21:41] Speaker 5: Okay, all right, I appreciate that you got it.
[21:44] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call, Joshua, and back
[21:46] Speaker 2: to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Doris. She's
[21:48] Speaker 2: listening on Saint Louis, Missouri.
[21:50] Speaker 6: Hi Doris, Hi, Hank, thank you for taking my call.
[21:54] Speaker 2: My pleasure.
[21:55] Speaker 6: My question is that I listen most every day, and
[21:58] Speaker 6: I've recently heard you talk about how when Jesus returns,
[22:03] Speaker 6: heaven will be recreated here on earth without the suffering
[22:06] Speaker 6: of death and pain. But my question is, what happens
[22:11] Speaker 6: then to everybody who dies? Now, everybody who's dead, what
[22:16] Speaker 6: happens when you die? Where do you go?
[22:17] Speaker 5: Now?
[22:18] Speaker 6: In the meantime, well.
[22:19] Speaker 2: Absent from the body, present with the Lord. So what
[22:22] Speaker 2: happens at death is there's an unnatural rending between body
[22:26] Speaker 2: and soul. To be a human means that you're a
[22:28] Speaker 2: body soul unity. At death, that body soul unity is disturbed,
[22:34] Speaker 2: it is broken, it is wrenched apart. So the body
[22:38] Speaker 2: goes back to the grave or back to the dust
[22:40] Speaker 2: from whence it came, and the non corporeal, the spiritual
[22:44] Speaker 2: aspect of humanity, goes to be with the Lord. And
[22:47] Speaker 2: then you await what is to come, Which is to
[22:51] Speaker 2: say that my dad died in nineteen ninety seven and
[22:56] Speaker 2: he was buried. His body's in the grave, his body,
[23:00] Speaker 2: no doubt completely decomposed. He's back to dust, as it were,
[23:05] Speaker 2: but he's in the presence of God. He's in the
[23:09] Speaker 2: presence of God in the sense that Jesus described in
[23:11] Speaker 2: Luke sixteen in Abraham's Bosom were in paradise. These are
[23:15] Speaker 2: metaphors for communicating being in the presence of God. But
[23:19] Speaker 2: when the Lord returns with a loud command, with the
[23:23] Speaker 2: voice of the archangel, with a trumpet call of God,
[23:25] Speaker 2: the dead in Christ will rise. And what happens is
[23:29] Speaker 2: the body is transformed. There's correspondence between the body that
[23:33] Speaker 2: died and the body that is resurrected. Now that doesn't
[23:37] Speaker 2: mean that there's the resurrection of very molecule. It simply
[23:41] Speaker 2: means that there's correspondence between the two. And therefore the
[23:45] Speaker 2: DNA that made my dad my dad is going to
[23:48] Speaker 2: be the DNA that's resurrected. That's a blueprint for his
[23:51] Speaker 2: glorified body. But that body will look as different, I suppose,
[23:55] Speaker 2: as a butterfly does from a caterpillar. It undergoes a
[23:59] Speaker 2: metamor sorphasis, and the soul returns to that body, and
[24:02] Speaker 2: my dad will be what he was intended to be,
[24:05] Speaker 2: a glorified human being, resurrected, immortal, imperishably, incorruptible.
[24:12] Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Hank, I appreciate your time.
[24:14] Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
[24:16] Speaker 2: And I've written about this in my book Resurrection, and
[24:20] Speaker 2: I do think this is an important book. It's part
[24:23] Speaker 2: of the trilogy that we have available through the Christian
[24:25] Speaker 2: Research Institute dealing with the three great apologetic issues. The
[24:29] Speaker 2: first issue I dealt with was the issue of origins.
[24:34] Speaker 2: How one views their origins determines how they live their life,
[24:36] Speaker 2: and so I wrote a book called The Face that
[24:38] Speaker 2: demonstrates the farce of evolution. Then the second grade apologetic
[24:44] Speaker 2: issue that I dealt with is the fact of resurrection.
[24:48] Speaker 2: The resurrection is the capstone in the arch of Christianity.
[24:51] Speaker 2: It's the hope of the believer. Without resurrection, we don't
[24:54] Speaker 2: have any hope. So in that book I give proof
[24:59] Speaker 2: not only for rice resurrection, but absolute certainty that we
[25:03] Speaker 2: too will be resurrected, and if we grasp that, we
[25:07] Speaker 2: could live our lives by an altogether different standard. But
[25:10] Speaker 2: the third book has God Spoken, deals with where we
[25:14] Speaker 2: get all this information from. How do I know what
[25:16] Speaker 2: I'm talking about is true? Well, that question is answered
[25:20] Speaker 2: when you can say God has spoken, And that's why
[25:23] Speaker 2: I answer that question, has God spoken in the affirmative
[25:26] Speaker 2: and say, yes, you can trust the Bible as the
[25:29] Speaker 2: infallible repository of redemptive revelation. We can know that we
[25:32] Speaker 2: know that we know that what the Bible is communicating
[25:35] Speaker 2: is indeed true. Of course, we also need to know
[25:37] Speaker 2: how to read the Bible for all it's worth. That's
[25:39] Speaker 2: why I wrote has God Spoken? But again. All three
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[25:45] Speaker 2: the Christian Research Institute. Check it out on the web
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[25:55] Speaker 2: for this edition of the Bible Ankman Broadcast. Again, thank
[25:59] Speaker 2: you for tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow with more
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