Updates on the Affirming Gender Ministry
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 …
When you face difficult gender problems, you need helpers who can stand against the cultural tides. You need helpers you can trust to guide you from their experience in helping others on the real-life scenarios that people don’t want to talk about.
The Gift of Gender, a new non-profit corporation in the state of Pennsylvania, is born.
As the weather heats up, along with the controversy surrounding gender issues, Affirming Gender is hitting the road for a season of speaking and presentations. This year, we are choosing audiences of a particular kind of influence to address. I am veritably gay (in the old sense of the word—you remember, like how Maria used it in West Side Story) at the thought of talking to these influencers.
“What am I going to do with these feelings? I can’t stand living in this body. Someone told me about this website but it’s all talk. Where can I get HELP?” Welcome to AffirmingGender’s new tab for pastoral care.
Nothing says it quite like a video, especially if you are under 29. Check out these short videos from the 2017 AffirmingGender conference in Cary, North Carolina, ranging from 1 to 5 minutes long.
Thank you for reading and responding to this first year of AffirmingGender. I published 100 posts on Affirming Gender this year. Guess which made the top ten? Herewith the most visited/read issues in 2017, and plans for 2018.
Those looking for live happenings we welcomed to come Affirm Gender with me at one of these fall events. These were some opportunities to learn a way to answer the most pressing gender questions and receive practical guidance on resolving gender troubles. September 29-October 01: enGendered: God, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st century Peace Presbyterian Church, Cary/Raleigh NC …
I have had some great times Affirming Gender so far this summer, and can give some good reports. Encountering the select assembly from Millersville Bible Church in June was so very encouraging because I met a group of people who wanted to actually do something to help those with sexuality difficulties. Lancaster County—always full of surprises. Their enthusiasm testified …
Dear Subscriber, I want to thank you for welcoming me into your email-box during these past months. I consider it an honor to have your attention for my posts and I take your subscription to mean that you are thinking with me about the important issue of gender. This makes me happy. For the past five months, I have …
