Audio podcasting comes to AffirmingGender
An audio series of sermons is starting on AffirmingGender, recounting the ideas on my own journey of wonder at this amazing gift of man and woman.
Category: Big Picture
Posts that get at an overview of a theology of gender.
What is Gender? (Part III): A More Biblical Answer
Let’s define this word in a way that is helpful for us.
What is Gender? Part II: Can You Change Yours?
Five definitions of ‘gender’ show that the answer to whether gender can be changed depends on what you think it is. How do you define it?
What is Gender? Part I:Seeing Thru History
“What does ‘gender’ mean?” is not a question we can answer simply. In our time, we must instead ask, what does it mean to you, and how has it come to mean that?
Gender Out of God
While discussing head coverings, the Apostle Paul claims that all these things about gender come out of God.. How might we understand gender coming out of God?
What’s the Symbol? (Review of The Genesis of Gender, Part II)
A story of deep thinker who embeds her narrative in her life situation, with room to grow.
How should one define the word: Gender?
For a word that gets tossed about quite a bit, it is surprising how murky its definition is. Both feminists and gender ideologues advance a partial truth.
The Need to Go Deep
A long form venue provides a needed forum for exploring gender theologically, just what the church needs to do to know the ‘why’s of Scripture’s commands.
Three Questions Our Culture Can No Longer Answer
A Time of Confusion about the Basics What is a Christian response to people who no longer know their left hand from their right (Jonah 4:11)? Or, in our case, their men from their women? The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a landmark ruling recently that redefines the term “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include …
Want It in a Nutshell? The Seven Christian Principles of Gender
Gender can be complex. It is easy to get lost in considerations of femininity and masculinity. Seven principles from the Bible make this difficult topic easier to understand.