Pornography and the Ancient Counsel of Balaam
The ancient Balaam knew the only way to oppose Israel was to destroy her relationship with God. Therefore, he suggested a substitute love offensive. His counsel still destroys the people of God today.
Category: Body
The physical platform and expression of our gender.
An Existential and Miserable Hero
An attractive writer’s entertaining prose in the New York Times only thinly masks the harsh reality of his hopelessness. The stark confessions of our culture’s new kind of hero.
Wounds From a Friend Can Be Trusted -Part 2
A friendship is tested when a man, determined to get surgical changes to reinforce the choice to live as a woman. What does this friend do?
Wounds From a Friend Can Be Trusted: Introducing Ryan Haines
A Christian’s story of how to engage with those with whom we disagree.
Sexual Sin-A Category All Its Own
“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body,” says the Apostle Paul. What does that mean?
You Cannot Know Yourself Alone
People feel comfortable saying, “I have a woman’s body but I am a man inside.” Yet how do we indeed come to know ourselves inside? Can we know who we are without any help from the outside, like from our bodies or our friends or our Creator? A moment’s thought should undo this falsehood.
Muddy Guests –Ready Yourself to Help the Gender Dysphoric
We just put a bathroom in our basement. But we know that those who come may be muddy.
The Best Three Books on Transgenderism from a Christian Perspective (Currently)
I meet a lot of Christians looking for answers about transgenderism. Many feel like they don’t know where to begin. The best treatments are going to attempt to give you a framework through which to understand some of these issues. That deeper look can help you to navigate the strange terrain. If you are looking for such reliable and understandable books to help, here are the best three I have encountered.
A Typical TransRegression Story
A few years ago, Tim was a troubled 20-something year old. One day Tim learned about transgenderism and thought, “This is it!” Tim became certain that living as the other gender was the answer to his troubles. So he changed his name to Darlene, marched down to the nearest doctor’s office and got a quick diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which allowed him to start taking hormones to make his body change. But Tim didn’t realize the trouble to his body that this would bring.
Strange Science That Isn’t There
Last week, two Wisconsin citizens sued their state Department of Health Services for not covering their sex-change operations under Medicaid, stating that science backs them up. What does the science really say?