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Category: <span>Intergendered Intimacy</span>

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How intergendered relationships build Trinitarian intimacy.

Gender Disintegration: From the Academy to Statistics

Gender Disintegration: From the Academy to Statistics

By Sam A. Andreades January 20, 2023 January 19, 2023 1

If you feel like God’s gift of gender is being destroyed, you are right. How can we know that this sense is more than just a feeling? Is it just alarmism?

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I’ve Stopped Talking About Sex

I’ve Stopped Talking About Sex

By Sam A. Andreades August 26, 2022 August 25, 2022 0

The author is far from prudish. So why is he no longer am comfortable speaking of “sex,” referring to the physical act of intimacy?

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Encouraging Steps of the Church

Encouraging Steps of the Church

By Sam A. Andreades June 17, 2022 June 16, 2022 0

In a review of the book, “Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian,” by Michelle Lee-Barnewall, we get some of that encouragement

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Surprise, Surprise: Cohabiting Increases Chances of Divorce (Who Knew?)

Surprise, Surprise: Cohabiting Increases Chances of Divorce (Who Knew?)

By Sam A. Andreades February 17, 2022 February 16, 2022 0

Research shows that marrying young without ever having lived together with a partner makes for the lowest divorce rates. Surprising news? It shouldn’t be.

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People Meet Their Dates Online

People Meet Their Dates Online

By Sam A. Andreades January 27, 2022 January 27, 2022 0

Online dating has eclipsed every other way of meeting a potential mate. Are daters wise enough to handle the change with a minimum of heartache?

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Christmas in Revelation III – When the Love of Many Grows Cold

Christmas in Revelation III – When the Love of Many Grows Cold

By Sam A. Andreades January 6, 2022 January 6, 2022 1

Let us keep on with intergendered love because thus our redemption has been worked.

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The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night

By Sam A. Andreades December 3, 2021 December 3, 2021 0

Dating With Discernment, available where all fine subversive literature is sold, tells many stories. One of them, Connor & Violet’s wedding night, shows just how intimacy develops in a marriage.

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“No Living Man Am I” (new book excerpt)

“No Living Man Am I” (new book excerpt)

By Sam A. Andreades September 18, 2021 September 20, 2021 0

In this Dating with Discernment excerpt, from my new book, I try to help men to appreciate women for their unique contributions to a relationship.

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How to Improve Your Marriage -It’s not Voodoo

How to Improve Your Marriage -It’s not Voodoo

By Sam A. Andreades August 4, 2021 August 4, 2021 2

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.

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The Shulammite Celebration of Gender, Part I

The Shulammite Celebration of Gender, Part I

By Sam A. Andreades July 27, 2021 July 27, 2021 0

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).

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What's a Real Man? What's a True Woman?

Is gender real? Does it matter in relationships? What does God think about it? So many diverse questions on peoples' lips today come down to the same thing: What does gender mean? Is it a construct of society or self-perception? Or is it a gift to foster intimacy and fruitfulness in our relationships?

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This site fosters honest and thoughtful conversation about the pressing issue of gender. I write from a Christian perspective, placing great value on the Bible's wisdom about it. But just understanding the Bible's message on gender is a big job for our time, and so part of what we discuss here. We also take up questions posed by our current culture's sometimes confusing views on women & men, relationships and identity.

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If you are new here, you might want to start with the Big Picture posts, Three Questions... and Want It In A Nutshell?, briefly outlining what I see as the seven main principles of gender.

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The posts consist of commentary on current events, excerpts from my general book, or book on dating, Biblical exegesis, praise for the culture’s gender goodness and ruminations on its errors as I see them. We also welcome guest posts from gender-savvy writers.

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Read, think, and join the conversation!

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