Teen Trans in Three Easy Pieces
The beautiful daughter mystified her parents with the announcement: she no longer identified as a girl. Against patient counsel, she took the hormonal and surgical steps to go to war with her body.
Presidential Failure in Masculinity
President Biden has mismanaged the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But his resolute failure to take responsibility for error stands out. Men in relationship doing this fail in masculinity.
Dating with Discernment: 12 Questions to Make a Lasting Marriage
Done with dating? Don’t know where to start? Wondering if your date is the one to marry? Bringing the Bible’s wisdom to bear on the dating scene, this book lays a foundation for a love that lasts.
How to Improve Your Marriage -It’s not Voodoo
When we dig into the Bible book, The Song of Songs, we find a lot of gender distinction in the urgings of the Shulammite Bride. In its pages she presents to us a vision of the ideal love, which can help us in our marriages. These practical principles of gender are very similar to those outlined by the Apostle Paul.
The Shulammite Celebration of Gender, Part I
I had the great honor recently of co-preaching through one of the most confusing (and avoided) books of the Bible: The Song of Songs (aka, The Song of Solomon).
Working with My Wife
One of the exceptional experiences I have had in later life is working together with my wife, Mary K. It is a certain kind of union to spend leisure time together, or to support one another on our separate endeavors, or to cooperate in childrearing, or to come together for physical touch. But it is another thing to collaborate on …
Which one would you pick up to find out more?
Want to help me choose a book cover? Six top designs compete for attention. Which one would get yours?
The Equality Act and Changes in Sexual Desire
The United States House of Representatives Bill, H.R.5, or “The Equality Act,” recently passed in the House on its way to the Senate. The bill seeks to extend protections against discrimination on the basis of sex to discrimination against what they call “sexual orientation and gender identity.” In the process, the text of the bill names the name that shall …
Next Gift of Gender Conference
I will be conducting a conference next Friday night-Saturday day (July 19-20) at Everett Assembly of God Church, sponsored by ReNewing Hope Ministries.
On Pilgrimage
Dear Friends, On this site for a full two years now, I have sought to serve the cause of understanding gender, the reality of men and women made in God’s image. I myself have grown through arranging this weekly commentary, filling out some of the landscape originally surveyed by the book, enGendered. I hope that you also have benefited from this …