Distinct By Design

In Episode 14 of Distinct by Design, host Patti Height sits down with Brady Cone, founder of Calibrate Ministries, who nearly took his own life at 13 after a youth pastor said from the pulpit that he wished all homosexuals would die. Brady shares how God brought him out of homosexuality into freedom, why he rejects both "pray the gay away" and the "Side B" gay-Christian identity in favor of a harder narrow road of daily surrender and lifelong sanctification, and how he now equips parents of LGBTQ kids to hold onto hope without letting go of truth. This is the kind of conversation that speaks straight to anyone wrestling with faith, sexuality, and gender, and refuses to let the enemy trade their hope for despair.

In Episode 13, host Patti of Out of Egypt Ministries sits down with Pastor Jordan McGaughey of Horizon Indy to share how Christ brought her out of a gay and gender-nonconforming identity and into full-time ministry to the church. She opens up about walking through same-sex attraction with Jesus instead of trying to "pray the gay away," the popular voices she believes are quietly leading believers astray, and the parking-lot moment that exposed what her attractions were really about. This is the kind of conversation that hands the local church both the truth and the tenderness it needs to love people well.

In Episode 12, Wayne Blakely joins Patty to share how he walked away from 40 years in the gay community — and why he made FREEDOM, a documentary confronting the fight over so-called "conversion therapy." He opens up about the childhood wounds behind his same-sex attraction, the night alone in his bedroom when he surrendered everything to Jesus, and why he believes "conversion therapy" is a made-up term now used to criminalize faith-based counseling and even prayer. This is the kind of conversation that cuts through the noise and asks who really has the freedom to seek the help — and the God — they want.

In Episode 11, Patti sits down with Melinda Patrick — author of The Daring Rescue and host of The Bridge Between Us — for a conversation made for parents who are quietly falling apart while trying to hold it all together. Melinda opens up about what it really looks like to love your child through transition without letting go of what you believe, the loneliness that comes when no one in your church knows what to say, and the grace that shows up when you refuse to walk away from either your kid or your convictions. This is the kind of conversation that finds you right where you are — and tells you the road forward is harder than you expected and more possible than you feared.

For over twenty years, Christine Sneeringer longed to be someone she wasn't.In Episode 10, Patti Height welcomes Christine Sneeringer — Executive Director of Worthy Creations and a woman whose story cuts straight to the heart of this show. Shaped by childhood abuse, Christine came to see femininity as weakness, wrestled with gender dysphoria, and lived for years in same-sex relationships — until God pursued her with a redeeming love that changed everything.Now walking in freedom for more than three decades, Christine helps the church engage sexuality and gender with both conviction and compassion. She and Patti talk about the roots of identity confusion, why real change is possible, and how the body of Christ can love hurting people without abandoning truth.An honest, hope-filled conversation about becoming who God designed you to be.

In Episode 9, Patti Height welcomes Glenn T. Stanton — Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family and author of Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor. Glenn has spent decades researching, writing, and debating the questions the church often avoids: identity, marriage, gender, and what a biblical view of sexuality actually asks of us.Together they unpack how grace and truth aren't opposites, why cultural confusion around gender is nothing new, and how believers can engage friends and family with conviction and compassion — no fumbling, no fear.A conversation for anyone wrestling with how to stand firm and stay loving.

Patty sits down with Pastor Josh Blevins (Grace Calvary Chapel, St. Joseph, MO) to unpack what happens when a pastor takes a public stand on sexuality, gender, and truth — and gets branded a bigot for it. Josh walks through the biblical case for a single, unchanging sexual ethic from Genesis to Revelation, then tells the inside story of the library-board controversy that triggered national media coverage, three lawsuits, and death threats against his family.

In Episode 7, we sit down with Ben Schettler — President and co-founder of The Center for Truth in Love — on what it actually takes to hold biblical conviction in a culture that pushes back. Ben opens up about the difference between winning an argument and reaching a person, the questions believers freeze on (Does God exist? Is the Bible reliable?), and how 20-plus years and 100,000 miles a year on the road reshaped the way he speaks truth without losing love. This is the kind of conversation that leaves you better equipped to stand firm and stay gracious in the same breath.

In Episode 6, Patti sits down with Phillip Lee of His Way Out Ministries for a conversation about what it actually takes to walk away from the life you thought defined you. Phillip opens up about the road that led him into bondage, the moment he realized escape wasn't a program but a Person, and what it's looked like to build a ministry out of his own breaking point. This is the kind of conversation that meets you in the middle of your own fight — and reminds you there's a way out, and a way through.

In Episode 5, Patti sits down with Laura Perry-Smaltz — author of Transgender to Transformed — for a conversation about what happens when childhood wounds become the doorway to a decade of living as someone God never designed her to be. Laura opens up about the pain that drove her transition, the nine years of surgeries, hormones, and affirmation that still left her empty, and the moment God's faithfulness broke through everything medicine and identity politics couldn't fix. This is the kind of conversation that tells the truth about brokenness without flinching — and points straight to the One who makes people whole.