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# AffirmingGender

What makes a Real Man. What awakens a True Woman

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- [The Issue](https://affirminggender.com/the-issue/) - What makes a Real Man? ...a True Woman? Does Gender Matter in Relationship? What does God think about it? Same-Sex Attraction? Feel trapped in Wrong Body?
- [How should one define the word: Gender?](https://affirminggender.com/2023/06/17/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.
- [How Jesus Identifies: As Wisdom](https://affirminggender.com/2023/06/09/how-jesus-identifies-as-wisdom/) - Jesus identifies in ways that surprise us, that we might get a glimpse of what is otherwise opaque to us—the glory of the Invisible Incomprehensible Divine.
- [Suprised by Wisdom and Grace](https://affirminggender.com/2026/09/14/suprised-by-wisdom-and-grace/) - The grace that we offer helps us understand the most important thing about the “Colossian heresy” that scholars talk about.
- [The Longing](https://affirminggender.com/2026/09/07/the-longing/) - It started as a slight pause of introspection, a hesitation when he passed a certain corner or when his nose caught a whiff of a certain blossom. A feeling...
- [Her Needed Voice](https://affirminggender.com/2017/08/09/the-voice-needed/) - I never would have predicted what the king did next. He told us to consult a prophet...
- [The Gift of Intergendered Intimacy](https://affirminggender.com/2026/08/30/the-gift-of-intergendered-intimacy/) - The Bible's secret for a successful relationship in marriage
- [When Women are Disposable Objects](https://affirminggender.com/2026/08/09/when-women-are-disposable-objects/) - President Obama had introduced initiatives address human trafficking in America (yes, America). The Bible’s Judges 19 asks us, how do you gauge a society?
- [The Revelations of Relationship](https://affirminggender.com/2026/08/02/the-revelations-of-relationship/) - Judges 16 tells us the tragic turn of Samson and Delilah. A famous story, but the lessons therein are often not learned...
- [Normal Life Not Allowed](https://affirminggender.com/2026/07/26/normal-life-not-allowed/) - Oppression sometimes comes from the hand of God to get the people of God to face their idolatry, but there is One who suffers with us in our misery.
- [A Hobby Lobby Conversion](https://affirminggender.com/2023/01/13/a-hobby-lobby-conversion/) - A mother bravely faces an inner conflict as she prepares for her daughter's wedding. What does the struggle reveal?
- [Heteropessimism -The Date Killer](https://affirminggender.com/2026/07/19/heteropessimism-the-date-killer/) - Once in a while, a label appears that truly fits the phenomenon. Someone coins a word that immediately illuminates the meaning of what is going on.
- [Recommended Resources on Transgenderism](https://affirminggender.com/2024/05/04/recommended-resources-on-transgenderism/) - People often ask, what resources do you recommend. It is time to update the answer. The liabilities of our culture have greatly increased. So has the help.
- [A Foray into the Hinterlands](https://affirminggender.com/2026/07/06/a-foray-into-gender-theory/) - A 2025 book can help introduce one to the hard to access ideas shaping our culture.
- [Stay Pride Day](https://affirminggender.com/2026/06/28/stay-pride-day/) - It was Gay Pride Day, June 28, 2009, in New York City. Our culture determined the unavoidable topic. But Romans 12 helped us move in the opposite direction.
- [Being a Real Man](https://affirminggender.com/2026/06/21/being-a-real-man/) - What is a real man? The Bible's answer brings a challenging clarity to this question.
- [What is Gender? Part I:Seeing Thru History](https://affirminggender.com/2025/07/18/what-is-gender-part-iseeing-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?
- [A Reprieve for Lia Thomas](https://affirminggender.com/2025/07/11/a-reprieve-for-lia-thomas/) - Stunning announcement: UPenn stripped Lia Thomas' women’s swimming awards. A missed opportunity for leadership but an opportunity for reflection for him.
- [The Things You Do For Love](https://affirminggender.com/2026/06/15/the-things-you-do-for-love/) - An ancient couple in the Negev show us the principles of a good marriage.
- [1Timothy 2:8-15 -The Pew Gripper](https://affirminggender.com/2026/06/08/1timothy-28-15-the-pew-gripper/) - Easily the most commented on passage in the book of 1Timothy since the 19th century, such a passage is the source of my wife’s term, “a pew-gripper,” sermon.
- [The Daughters of Zelophehad are Right!](https://affirminggender.com/2026/05/25/the-daughters-of-zelophehad-are-right/) - What are the two principles the whole Bible, over and over, teaches about gender?
- [C.S. Lewis and the Trans-Sexual](https://affirminggender.com/2026/05/18/c-s-lewis-and-the-trans-sexual/) - When C. S. Lewis used the word in his science fiction novel, Perelandra, in 1943, he had a big idea in mind.
- [The Women of Jesus](https://affirminggender.com/2026/04/20/the-women-of-jesus/) - How important are women to the work of the gospel? And what is it with me and beer?
- [A Woman's Vow- Numbers 30](https://affirminggender.com/2026/05/04/a-womans-vow-numbers-30/) - While the law in Numbers 30 is not for today, I remain convinced of the truth of it, and so its value to translate for us today.
- [The Law of the Jealous Husband](https://affirminggender.com/2026/04/27/the-law-of-the-jealous-husband/) - Though the Old Testament Israelite law is not for today, its principles still hold value and its wisdom still illuminates our intergendered relationships.
- [Change in the Weather: The SCOTUS shocks](https://affirminggender.com/2026/04/02/change-in-the-weather-the-scotus-shocks/) - This decision feels like a sudden weather change for which one might not have properly dressed. I suggest noting three large points in this momentous decision.
- [Whose Name is Jealous](https://affirminggender.com/2026/03/23/whose-name-is-jealous/) - The wholesome version of jealousy needs to inform our marriages and worship, because of God’s passion for His people.
- [How to look at Sodom's Disintegration](https://affirminggender.com/2026/03/16/how-to-look-at-sodoms-disintegration/) - I was so pleased to be able to say from the pulpit, “If you have same-sex-attraction, please come here! We’re here to stand w/those who want change in Christ."
- [Across the Genders](https://affirminggender.com/2026/03/09/across-the-genders/) - 2 propositions: Marriage is predicated on gender difference. Marriage is a place to understand your identity. Because gender is about relationship w/the other.
- [Pornography: What’s the Big Deal?](https://affirminggender.com/2026/03/02/pornography-whats-the-big-deal/) - Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
- [He Touched Him and He Yelled at Him](https://affirminggender.com/2026/02/23/he-touched-him-and-he-yelled-at-him/) - Often an intergendered relationship deals the compassion vs. competence spectrum. Our partners help show us our strength and challenge our weakness.
- [How To Forgive A Lot-Jesus on Daniel 9](https://affirminggender.com/2026/02/16/how-to-forgive-a-lot-jesus-on-daniel-9/) - Periodically we must lubricate intergendered love with forgiveness. Christ (using Daniel 9) gives us the way to, going way beyond tips to manage anger.
- [Sex from Proverbs 30-Appetite or Wonder](https://affirminggender.com/2026/02/09/sex-appetite-or-wonder/) - I find, particularly this passage, Proverbs 30:18-20, awe-inspiring on this topic. Its profundity touches on so much of our experience with this gift.
- [Making Love to Hard Hearts](https://affirminggender.com/2026/02/02/making-love-to-hard-hearts/) - The question, ‘When to Divorce?’, doesn’t get old. This sermon addressed a time when NYC was debating no-fault divorce, a hot topic 2,000 years before.
- [Gender Glorious](https://affirminggender.com/2026/01/26/gender-glorious/) - Gender expresses something fundamental w/in God, however differently the antecedent exists in that unapproachable light, helping us enjoy our union's glory.
- [Wearing Your Culture into Worship](https://affirminggender.com/2026/01/19/wearing-your-culture-into-worship/) - Part 1 of the ideas of my exegesis of the 1Corinthians 11 head-covering passage, Paul’s foundational treatment of gender through his reading of Moses
- [Should Women Wear Head Coverings](https://affirminggender.com/2024/10/11/should-women-wear-head-coverings/) - It is funny that Paul's theology of gender argument hinges upon a woman’s accoutrement. But this issue of the moment became the occasion for profound teaching.
- [Marriage for Love-Making, Singleness for Bliss](https://affirminggender.com/2026/01/12/marriage-for-love-making-singleness-for-bliss/) - The Bible exalts both marriage and singleness. Both are important life phase so we need to prepare for both and we need inspiration for both.
- [Gender Matters](https://affirminggender.com/2025/11/06/from-days-of-old-the-first-gender-sermon/) - Over twenty years ago, the ideas of gender preached in New York City.
- [Does God Belong in the Bedroom?](https://affirminggender.com/2025/11/13/does-god-belong-in-the-bedroom/) - In marital covenant lovemaking, we imitate, in a toy way, divine intimacy. God does not have a body as we do, but we're God’s image splayed out in space & time
- [The War Brides of Deuteronomy](https://affirminggender.com/2025/11/21/the-war-brides-of-deuteronomy/) - You could hear a pin drop after reading this passage, what my wife calls a pew-gripper. We were going through Deuteronomy...
- [Mad as Hell](https://affirminggender.com/2025/11/26/mad-as-hell/) - We must squarely face the perennial obstacle of intergendered unions: anger. In our marriages, Jesus brings us to deep repentance and so deep redemption.
- [The Dance of Gender](https://affirminggender.com/2025/12/02/the-dance-of-gender/) - It was May, 2004. Trans was on the rise in Greenwich Village. Confronted by Deuteronomy 22:5, I had to understand why God feels so strongly re cross-dressing.
- [What is Wrong with Cross Dressing?](https://affirminggender.com/2025/12/09/what-is-wrong-with-cross-dressing/) - Some lines of the universe you cannot color outside of, but realizing your gender quickens you, and the beauty of the dance overshadows both man & woman.
- [Sex & The City](https://affirminggender.com/2025/12/15/sex-the-city/) - For souls gipped by sexual temptation, the apostle's exhortations in 1Corinthians 6 hold great power.
- [Women in the Military](https://affirminggender.com/2025/12/22/women-in-the-military/) - A different perspective on the Christmas story--Luke 1 (interpreted through the OT anticipation of Mary in Judges 5). Mary had a marshal mindset in her mission.
- [Within Her Body, a Will Too Strong for Her](https://affirminggender.com/2025/12/29/within-her-body-a-will-too-strong-for-her/) - God will do what He will do to save us. So we do well to, w/Doula Mary, in contrast to Priest Zechariah, believe what He says through Gabriel & not resist Him.
- [Obsessive Forgiveness](https://affirminggender.com/2026/01/05/obsessive-forgiveness/) - Crucial to what makes marriage work is resolutely offering grace to our spouses. We need tremendous spiritual power for this. The secret is in being forgiven.
- [Ancient Transgenderism at Uruk](https://affirminggender.com/2023/02/10/ancient-transgenderism-at-uruk/) - Q: Can the Bible help transgender folks? Did its authors even have words for non-binary and trans? A: Departure from the gift of gender has ancient pedigree.
- [One Week Away](https://affirminggender.com/2023/09/02/one-week-away/) - Yes, there are just seven days to the release of Across the Kitchen Table: Talking about Trans with Your Teen. A video tells where it all began….
- [Audio podcasting comes to AffirmingGender](https://affirminggender.com/2025/11/02/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.
- [My Farewell Message to America](https://affirminggender.com/2025/09/02/my-farewell-message-to-america/) - I take leave of my beloved United States today. But I don't exit ungratefully, without a parting gift to this fertile soil of experiment from which I sprung.
- [At the Crossroads She Takes Her Stand: Can Erika Kirk’s Point Turn America](https://affirminggender.com/2025/10/13/at-the-crossroads-she-takes-her-stand-can-erica-kirks-point-turn-america/) - I recently gave a somewhat pessimistic assessment of America’s fortunes, based on a steady look at cultural movements. But a recent event has given me pause.
- [Charlie Kirk's Murder and Transgenderism](https://affirminggender.com/2025/09/27/charlie-kirks-murder-and-transgenderism/) - The ongoing investigation of the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, hints at ties between the transgenderism and the shooter. Are there such connections?
- [The Cosmic Meaning of the Prudent Wife](https://affirminggender.com/2025/09/12/the-cosmic-meaning-of-the-prudent-wife/) - “I only chose to buy one pot,” proclaimed my wife, assessing her shopping trip. To set up our new life, we face the immigrant's wall of opposition.
- [That’s Just the Way that Men and Women Are](https://affirminggender.com/2025/08/29/thats-just-the-way-that-men-and-women-are/) - You’ve often heard, “That’s just the way women are,” and “Men are just like that.” Does the Bible ever engage in that kind of talk? What do you think?
- [A Subtle Destruction: Review of movie--Alice, Darling](https://affirminggender.com/2025/08/15/a-subtle-destruction-review-of-movie-alice-darling/) - A man may be wrongfully exercising control of a woman or acting as the head that he should be Here are some ways to discern a relationship that tips to the bad.
- [A Great Talk about Trans](https://affirminggender.com/2025/08/08/a-great-talk-about-trans/) - Recently, a relaxed conversation before the most important audience brought a much needed clarity about transgenderism...
- [What is Gender? (Part III): A More Biblical Answer](https://affirminggender.com/2025/08/01/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?](https://affirminggender.com/2025/07/25/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?
- [If Lia Thomas Swam in an Alternate Universe](https://affirminggender.com/2022/04/01/if-lia-thomas-swam-in-an-alternate-universe/) - The picture of Lia Thomas' first place award podium is a tragic meme of the opposite of manliness. In an alternate universe, we can imagined a different result.
- [The Value of Numbers](https://affirminggender.com/2025/07/04/the-value-of-numbers/) - The greatest of the early theologians, Tertullian, uses ordinal numbers, showing us Trinitarian asymmetry as a reality of relationships.
- [Fallen Perceptions](https://affirminggender.com/2025/06/27/fallen-perceptions/) - The Supreme Court versus the American Medical Association on treating a child's gender incongruence--does the Christian understanding of the Fall help?
- [Gender is Everlasting...](https://affirminggender.com/2025/06/13/gender-is-everlasting/) - The Scriptures show that that feature of us will go on forever. What does that say about the gift and our identity?
- [Gender is Moral and Needs to be Taught](https://affirminggender.com/2025/06/20/gender-is-moral-and-needs-to-be-taught/) - This week the Supreme Court ruled for a Tennessee law banning gender imitative measures for children. The decision moves the culture closer to a key insight.
- [Metamorphosis -The Character of the Christian Life](https://affirminggender.com/2025/06/07/metamorphosis-the-character-of-the-christian-life/) - What makes a life Christian? What marks a soul entangled with the Divine through Jesus Christ? This word stands out as a defining characteristic.
- [Good Preaching](https://affirminggender.com/2025/01/31/good-preaching/) - I spend a lot of time yearning for people to get the goodness of the Bible’s teaching about gender. Good preaching helps people see its beauty.
- [An Unintentional Outlaw, Once Again](https://affirminggender.com/2025/05/30/an-unintentional-outlaw-once-again/) - Last week Colorado made using an unliked gendered pronoun a punishable offense. In a recent podcast I advocate it to help the gender-troubled. Outlawed again?
- [As Much A Part of God As Commanding](https://affirminggender.com/2025/05/23/as-much-a-part-of-god-as-commanding/) - The Trinity teaches us that submission makes up God's nature as much as ruling. Christ's eternal generation shows itself in His glad obedience.
- [Man and Woman Make a Mission](https://affirminggender.com/2025/05/16/man-and-woman-make-a-mission/) - The Bible shows God calling men and women together in mission. In spiritual work, we see a representational leadership of man and a critical enactment of woman.
- [The New Testament Pronatalism](https://affirminggender.com/2025/05/09/the-new-testament-pronatalism/) - The Mifepristone Abortion Pill reveals a culture running contrary the New Testament’s exaltation of childbearing, through which salvation continues to unfold.
- [The Forgotten Purpose](https://affirminggender.com/2025/05/02/the-forgotten-purpose/) - The New York Times article says that the current presidential administration is considering how to get women to have more children. What is the Bible's take?
- [What Married Life is About](https://affirminggender.com/2025/04/11/what-married-life-is-about/) - The day I began to realize how pervasive the cultural disdain for bearing and raising children had become in the American church.
- [Appreciating the Overlap…and Not](https://affirminggender.com/2025/04/25/appreciating-the-overlapand-not/) - This month, fencer Stephanie Turner declined to face a male opponent. In response, USA Fencing made the same mistake as Serena Williams made in tennis in 1998.
- [Clear Answers on the Horizon](https://affirminggender.com/2025/04/18/clear-answers-on-the-horizon/) - People have many questions on which they seek clarity. The Panel Q&A for EthicsCon 2025 in Allentown gives clarion answers to pressing questions.
- [Ah, Junia](https://affirminggender.com/2023/10/27/ah-junia/) - A New Testament mentioning of “apostle” in connection with a female name raises questions about womanly authority in the early church.
- [The Adulterer, Karl Barth](https://affirminggender.com/2025/04/04/the-adulterer-karl-barth/) - On this infamous anniversary, we must ask, how can someone speak good when doing evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
- [Women Rejecting Marriage? Offer A Better Vision](https://affirminggender.com/2025/03/28/women-rejecting-marriage-offer-a-better-vision/) - The Wall Street Journal heralded, “American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage.” The reasons boil down to the dissolution of gender. Can we offer a better vision?
- [The two-in-oneness of husband and wife expands with a child into a three-in-oneness](https://affirminggender.com/2024/10/19/the-two-in-oneness-of-husband-and-wife-expands-with-a-child-into-a-three-in-oneness/) - Herman Bavinck gives us wisdom on gender and relationship from a hundred years ago, and an intriguing suggestion.
- [The Name We Should All Know](https://affirminggender.com/2025/03/21/the-name-we-should-all-know/) - With honorary degrees from 11 universities, her works translated into 27 languages, she "has changed the way we think about sex, sexuality, gender...”
- [Three Big Things Just Happened](https://affirminggender.com/2025/03/14/two-big-things-have-happened/) - A congressional bill and a robust Journal of Sexual Medicine study question America's way of addressing gender dysphoria.
- [Looking Back to the Law](https://affirminggender.com/2025/03/07/looking-back-to-the-law/) - Contrary to the idea of a progression, the apostle's method of "looking back to the law" makes gender principles feel enduring and so needing our heeding.
- [Do Baby Girls Have More Cooties?](https://affirminggender.com/2025/02/28/do-baby-girls-have-more-cooties/) - After my daughter's birth, I asked a Hasidic mother of 7, “Why is a mother is ritually unclean for 1 week after she bears a son, but 2 weeks for a daughter?”
- [A Happy Day for Gay Guys and Christians](https://affirminggender.com/2025/02/21/a-happy-day-for-gay-guys-and-christians/) - On the day the Bellevue Hospital Inpatient AIDS Service closed because there were no longer the patients to sustain it, I called up the Gay City News editor...
- [The Two Principles Always Active in Gender](https://affirminggender.com/2025/02/07/the-two-principles-always-active-in-gender/) - Just as we see them side by side in the Bible, they need to be side by side in our lives, to move forward in love for Valentine's Day. | 👥
- [The Church Complicit: Review of Jesus & Gender by Fitzpatrick & Schumacher](https://affirminggender.com/2022/12/02/the-church-complicit-review-of-jesus-gender-by-fitzpatrick-schumacher/) - While it has its good points, this book is typical of the church's and the culture's current minimization of gender in relationship.
- [Why Protestants Need a Catholic Attitude: Introducing Christopher West](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/05/why-protestants-need-a-catholic-attitude-introducing-christopher-west/) - Wait, you say, what is this about? I read this blog for gender issues. What business does a post about Roman Catholicism have being here? I’ll tell you. It has a lot to do with gender issues, and with what God is teaching His church in our day. Hear me out. I grew up
- [Bahram Gur Will Ride Again](https://affirminggender.com/2025/01/24/bahram-gur-will-ride-again/) - President Trump this week declared official policy of the USA to be only two genders. But the Persian tale of Bahram Gur & Azadeh shows this to be an old issue.
- [Richard Hays, of Widening Mercy, Goes Out As He Lived](https://affirminggender.com/2025/01/17/richard-hays-of-widening-mercy-goes-out-as-he-lived/) - A New Testament Professor, known for his work on ethics and echoes, passes, sparking memories of arguments still relevant in his office, long, long ago.
- [Harem-Taking Runs Deep in Fallen Man](https://affirminggender.com/2025/01/04/harem-taking-runs-deep-in-fallen-man/) - The Bible's early narrative may demonstrate a gendered fundamental of the fall of Man: the desire to depart from the goodness of marriage.
- [The Dating Hero, The Real St. Nicholas](https://affirminggender.com/2024/12/25/the-dating-hero-the-real-st-nicholas/) - I found myself watching a movie called “Red One.” It cast Santa Claus as—guess what?—a super-hero. The original St. Nicholas of Myra was instead a dating hero.
- [An Ancient Tradition for a Modern Problem](https://affirminggender.com/2024/12/20/an-ancient-tradition-for-a-modern-problem/) - The Modern Problem is understanding gender. The Ancient Tradition is vestigia Trinitatis, a Latin term meaning "Traces of the Trinity."
- [Techno-Pagan Shadows Growing](https://affirminggender.com/2024/12/13/techno-pagan-shadows/) - Here is a term we should all know: in vitro gametogenesis (IVG). It will soon play a key role in the story of humanity's unfolding.
- [Women Wanted for the Whole Job](https://affirminggender.com/2024/12/06/women-wanted-for-the-whole-job/) - I was this week reading a theology book by a reverent, orthodox yet creative theologian for whom I have immense respect. But my esteemed teacher misspoke.
- [News from 14th Century Sienna: Life-Inspired Painting](https://affirminggender.com/2024/11/29/news-from-14th-century-sienna-life-inspired-liveliness/) - What began the shape of modern Western painting, the great works of psychological depth that became the Western tradition, was a generative scene of gender.
- [The Real Gender-Nonconforming (Giving Up Hope on Relationship)](https://affirminggender.com/2024/11/22/the-real-gender-nonconforming-giving-up-hope-on-relationship/) - One of the worst doctrines of our current culture dictates that little boys who like pink, or little girls who like dump trucks, are “gender nonconforming.”
- [I Will Not Punish Your Daughters](https://affirminggender.com/2024/11/15/i-will-not-punish-your-daughters/) - The ancient prophet, Hosea, distinguishes gender in a coming judgment. One of the Bible's passing references to asymmetry demonstrate its consistent message.
- [Augustine's Costly Miss](https://affirminggender.com/2024/11/01/augustines-costly-error/) - We have much to thank the Titan of Theological Discourse for. But he missed where the Scriptures point us to picture the central truth about God.
- [Should I Wait to Date?](https://affirminggender.com/2024/10/25/should-i-wait-to-date/) - Shall I finish my school program before dating? What you do is less important than how you think about doing it. Here is how to think it through.
- [Send out the Young Women to Speak Loudly](https://affirminggender.com/2024/10/04/send-out-the-young-women-to-speak-loudly/) - Last week the Afghanistan Taliban said that women may not speak in public. But, in the Bible, Wisdom's young women speak loudly from the town's highest places.
- [How to be Winsome](https://affirminggender.com/2024/09/27/how-to-be-winsome/) - The more certain you are of your own view, the more winsome you can be. Because then you are not defending. You are proclaiming.
- [Gender Resurges in the Adirondacks](https://affirminggender.com/2024/09/21/gender-resurges-in-the-adirondacks/) - The Gift of Gender Seminar proceeds this coming weekend in Queensbury, New York State
- [Daters’ Demand: The Context of Family](https://affirminggender.com/2024/09/13/daters-demand-the-context-of-family/) - Dating apps and marrying trends tell us something deep about ourselves and God.
- [Gender Out of God](https://affirminggender.com/2024/08/23/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?
- [Getting Answers to Gender Questions](https://affirminggender.com/2024/09/06/getting-answers-to-gender-questions/) - A new feature on the Affirming Gender website gets gender answers faster...
- [How SOGI Laws are About To Change Your Life](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/26/how-sogi-laws-are-about-to-change-your-life/) - Do you know what SOGI laws are? That stands for Sexual Orientation Gender Identity laws, and they are about to change your life. They concern securing gay identity and chosen gender identity as legally protected classes, while promoting penalties for people with convictions that we are created male and female and that male and female
- [Marriage for the Same Sex Attracted?](https://affirminggender.com/2023/03/17/marriage-for-the-same-sex-attracted/) - Many with unwanted same-sex attraction (SSA) wonder about intergendered union, “Is marriage for me?” The answer is a little more complex than for most people.
- [Why Debate Over Born This Way Won’t Go Away](https://affirminggender.com/2024/07/05/why-debate-over-born-that-way-wont-go-away/) - A hormone-birthed predisposition, when mixed with other ingredients in one’s experiences, responses, can yield same-sex attraction. But it is not determinative.
- [Why Are There Fewer Women in the Bible?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/12/06/why-are-there-fewer-women-in-the-bible/) - There are 3,237 characters named in the Bible, a lot of people! Only 188 are women. Why this mathematical difference? The answer isn't what you think.
- [Diagnosing Trans in Teens](https://affirminggender.com/2023/02/03/diagnosing-trans-in-teens/) - Transgenderism is a big umbrella of a term. A parent or teacher of a teen standing under it needs a flowchart to get to the heart of what is going on.
- [The Lesser Voice of Pornography and The Call to Marriage](https://affirminggender.com/2023/07/07/the-lesser-voice-of-pornography-and-the-call-to-marriage/) - Surprising directive from the apostle Paul really helps those wishing to break a pornography compulsion.
- [Where Does That Leave Me As a Single Person?](https://affirminggender.com/2024/08/02/where-does-that-leave-me-as-a-single-person/) - Single listeners have a difficult time with the principle that gender is about relationship. A big reason is the paucity of community in modern life.
- [A Woman's Bold Demand...](https://affirminggender.com/2024/08/30/a-womans-bold-demand/) - What a thing to say to Jesus. Who would be forward enough to command the Lord to act? Who comes to him with, not a request, not a petition, but an instruction?
- [Two Women Who Challenged Moses](https://affirminggender.com/2024/08/17/two-women-who-challenged-moses/) - Miriam and Zipporah provide a stark contrast as they navigate conflict with the the leader of God's people.
- [America Restarts Rebellion against Great Britain](https://affirminggender.com/2024/08/09/america-restarts-rebellion-against-great-britain/) - In response to the British Cass Report exposing the lack of science in treating the gender troubled, the American establishment soldiers on.
- [The Largest Letter in LGBTQIA+](https://affirminggender.com/2024/07/26/the-largest-letter-in-lgbtqia/) - Test yourself. What do you think is the largest population lurking in the letters: LGBTQIA+? The answer is revealing...
- [How to Read the Bible Wrongly](https://affirminggender.com/2024/07/19/how-to-read-the-bible-wrongly/) - Sometimes people draw conclusions from the stories of the Bible w/o the Bible's accompanying commands. Nijay Gupta's book, "Tell Her Story," is an example.
- [Faithful Take from Down Under](https://affirminggender.com/2024/07/12/faithful-take-from-down-under/) - Gender is so big a part of who we are, we need many venues of investigation to understand it. The Gender Revolution (2023), helps with a multi-pronged approach.
- [The No-Gay-Gene Science](https://affirminggender.com/2024/06/29/the-no-gay-gene-science/) - Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) establish that there is no gay gene, but those wishing it were so can always hope.
- [The Book is Better than the Movie](https://affirminggender.com/2024/06/21/the-book-is-better-than-the-movie/) - While Matt Walsh's 2022 movie, What is a Woman?, shows telling gotcha moments, the book relays the valuable background. Yet, it lacks on one score.
- [The Glory of the Wedding Dress](https://affirminggender.com/2024/06/14/the-glory-of-the-wedding-dress/) - Last week, my son got married. As is customary, he did not see the wedding dress until his bride appeared, walking down the aisle. The wonder lit up his face like a sunrise.
- [Release of the Real Talk Dating Interview](https://affirminggender.com/2024/05/31/release-of-the-real-talk-dating-interview/) - Discouraged about Dating? A unique conversation of young and old, yielding great counsel for those in the realm of the dangerous decision.
- [But Woman is the glory of Man…](https://affirminggender.com/2024/06/06/but-woman-is-the-glory-of-man/) - My son is getting married this week. And my mind keeps going to 1Corinthians 11:7: "…he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man."
- [No Fixed Outcome Except for One: Review of  When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents, by Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets](https://affirminggender.com/2023/04/07/no-fixed-outcome-except-for-one-review-of-when-children-come-out-a-guide-for-christian-parents-by-mark-yarhouse-and-olya-zaporozhets/) - The 2022 book is supposed to help with LGBT+ confessions in the family. Its "no fixed outcome" approach presses for any but one particular outcome.
- [Want It in a Nutshell? The Seven Christian Principles of Gender](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/28/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.
- [“It’s just a personal decision.” No it’s not.](https://affirminggender.com/2024/05/24/its-just-a-personal-decision-no-its-not/) - Suicide risk increase for those getting gender-imitative surgery. Seeking relief that way is not “just a personal decision.” We are way too connected for that.
- [Competent to Care For (not Kill)](https://affirminggender.com/2024/05/18/competent-to-care-for-not-kill/) - Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood" recalls a time of competent manhood and its play with violence. How do the two go together?
- [Those Seeking Can Now Find: Entering a New Era of Good Counsel](https://affirminggender.com/2024/05/10/those-seeking-can-now-find-entering-a-new-era-of-good-counsel/) - "Transformation: A Former Transgender Responds to LGBTQ,", Linda Seiler's teaching testimony gives solid support for the gender-torn seeking a different route.
- [My Favorite Transgender Author](https://affirminggender.com/2024/04/26/my-favorite-transgender-author/) - Reading Andrea Long Chu’s book length rumination, Females, is like watching a favorite nephew self-destruct. It is to often ask, "If only..."
- [Trans Talk at Coventry Christian School](https://affirminggender.com/2023/03/03/trans-talk-at-coventry-christian-school/) - Sam to speak March 09 at Coventry Christian School on "Helping Your Child Navigate a Gender-Confused Culture." All are welcome but must register soon.
- [A Gay Man on Intimacy -review of The Madness of Crowds](https://affirminggender.com/2024/04/19/a-gay-man-on-intimacy-review-of-the-madness-of-crowds/) - Douglas Murray, with honesty and wit, critiques our culture, while honestly examining the monogendered experience in comparison to the intergendered.
- [INANNA of Uruk Rides Again](https://affirminggender.com/2024/04/12/inanna-rides-again/) - England’s NHS brought the Tavistock Clinic to its final demise. The worship of the ancient pagan goddess, Inanna, offers some striking parallels.
- [Where We’re Affirming Gender This Year](https://affirminggender.com/2024/04/05/where-were-affirming-gender-this-year/) - That intimacy-inducing, fruitfulness-producing, identity-inculcating, God-imaging dynamic of being human will be presented at these engagements this year.
- [What's the Symbol? (Review of The Genesis of Gender, Part II)](https://affirminggender.com/2024/03/28/whats-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.
- [An Important Book, Part I (Review of The Genesis of Gender, by Abigail Favale)](https://affirminggender.com/2024/03/22/an-important-book-part-i-review-of-the-genesis-of-gender-by-abigail-favale/) - A thoughtful intellectual travelogue from a previous Gender Studies professor helps move the Church's needed conversation forward.
- [What is a Woman? Plato Answers](https://affirminggender.com/2024/03/15/what-is-a-woman-plato-answers/) - The question, “What is a woman?” has been forged into our vernacular. But long before Matt Walsh, Plato answers in Timaeus. The Bible's contrast pays reviewing.
- [Change in Same-sex Desires: An Update](https://affirminggender.com/2024/03/08/change-in-same-sex-desires-an-update/) - The falsehood prevails that sexual desires may not change, but compassion dictates being honest with those wanting it. Let’s keep the record straight for them.
- [Exton Expresses Gender](https://affirminggender.com/2024/03/06/exton-expresses-gender/) - For those in the Philadelphia area desiring a deeper discussion of gayness, this Sunday Grace Covenant Church will host a three meeting event.
- [How Media Made It Up (Review of Subverted, by Sue Ellen Browder)](https://affirminggender.com/2024/03/01/how-media-made-it-up-review-of-subverted-by-sue-ellen-browder/) - The machinations of media that helped women embrace a culture of cohabitation and abortion, Browder's autobiography is a journey of worldview change.
- [Faith Cometh By Hearing…](https://affirminggender.com/2024/02/23/faith-cometh-by-hearing/) - Faith can still come by hearing, if what is heard is a good word. Announcing: "Across the Kitchen Table" on Audio.
- [More Fine-Grained Support](https://affirminggender.com/2024/02/16/more-fine-grained-support/) - Need help parenting Boys and Girls in a World of Gender Breakdown? Harvest USA has the course for you. And its free.
- [Then He Spoke Her Name](https://affirminggender.com/2024/02/09/then-he-spoke-her-name/) - It was always so easy for her. She knew she had power over men...
- [Preaching about women and men? Anticipate ancient contradiction](https://affirminggender.com/2024/02/02/preaching-about-women-and-men-anticipate-ancient-contradiction/) - When it comes to describing gender, we might think that we face novel difficulty...until we note something about the apostle Paul’s addresses on gender.
- [A Big Piece of the Helping Pie](https://affirminggender.com/2024/01/26/a-big-piece-of-the-helping-pie/) - The 2019 book, Unwanted, by Jay Stringer, provides a useful tool for understanding and recovery from enslaving sexual desires.
- [The High Cost of Counterfeits](https://affirminggender.com/2024/01/20/the-high-cost-of-counterfeits/) - Many counterfeits cloud the the gift of gender for people. You cannot celebrate the high quality product if you have bought the knock-off.
- [15 Years of Isaiah's Experience—Happy Anniversary to Higher Ground!](https://affirminggender.com/2024/01/12/15-years-of-isaiahs-experience-happy-anniversary-to-higher-ground/) - On a bitter cold winter night 15 years ago, in the upstairs level of a grocery in Greenwich Village, a small group of men met to take the Scriptures seriously on a matter of desperate importance to them: same-sex attraction.
- [Venture into the world of a homeschooling family—If you dare! Review of Lions for Ajax](https://affirminggender.com/2024/01/05/venture-into-the-world-of-a-homeschooling-family-if-you-dare-review-of-lions-for-ajax/) - A unique story book shows gender training of a troubled young child.
- [Birthing Against the Tide](https://affirminggender.com/2023/12/29/birthing-against-the-tide/) - My daughter and son-in-law are having a baby in February. In a culture that demeans the value of childbearing, I admired their response.
- [Why Not Threesomes?](https://affirminggender.com/2018/05/23/why-not-threesomes/) - If gender comes from being made in God’s image, and we as men and women in relationship are an analogy of the hidden relations of Trinity of Persons in the One God, then why are there only two genders?
- [Rejected at Christmas? Welcome to the Family!](https://affirminggender.com/2023/12/22/rejected-at-christmas-welcome-to-the-family/) - Jesus was rejected by family and neighbors. It is sometimes hard to endure family. It is even harder to tell the truth in the right way when scorned.
- [The Woman with the Upper Millstone, --Review of Five Lies…, by Rosaria Butterfield](https://affirminggender.com/2023/12/15/the-woman-with-the-upper-millstone-review-of-five-lies-by-rosaria-butterfield/) - A new book makes a bracing call for the church to repent of adopting the culture's contradictions of the Bible's proclamation on gender.
- [God's True Intentions](https://affirminggender.com/2023/12/08/gods-true-intentions/) - Struggling with one of God's gender commands? Are you seeing the law's true intent?
- [What is God’s Gender?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/03/what-is-gods-gender/) - A reader writes: “You don't really tackle the gender of God, why God reveals himself with masculine pronouns.” This is a helpful question. It is also a very necessary one. Because the answer to the question confers something desperately needed by about half of the image-bearers of God. Many women grow up with a sneaking
- [Where We Were and Where We Were Heading](https://affirminggender.com/2023/12/01/where-we-were-and-where-we-were-heading/) - 15 years ago, a short booklet called "Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles" appeared. Happily, it is still available and last year saw a 2nd edition.
- [Category Failure (Review of Leonard Sax, Part 3)](https://affirminggender.com/2023/11/24/category-failure-review-of-leonard-sax-part-3/) - An overall useful book, somewhat crippled by a departure from the explanation of gender found in the Bible.
- [When Sex Differences Should Count](https://affirminggender.com/2023/08/02/when-sex-differences-should-count/) - Highlighting sex differences is good. And it is also bad. I have tried to learn when they should count. Because enumerating sex differences can help and hurt.
- [The Trans Conclusion: A Smooth Continuous Sheet of Skin](https://affirminggender.com/2023/11/17/the-trans-conclusion-a-smooth-continuous-sheet-of-skin/) - A new and increasingly used surgical option conveys the destination of the trans movement.
- [Inspire Young Men Without Demeaning Women](https://affirminggender.com/2023/11/11/inspire-young-men-without-demeaning-women/) - A good friend expressed sadness to me at the absence of young men in churches and yet their responsiveness to influencers like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate.
- [Why Would God Tell Women to Submit?](https://affirminggender.com/2023/11/03/why-would-god-tell-women-to-submit/) - The Apostle Paul says that the goal of every and any of the commands in the Bible is love. But how do we see the love in this one?
- [“Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen...” and it was "varón y mujer."](https://affirminggender.com/2023/10/20/hagamos-al-hombre-a-nuestra-imagen-and-it-was-varon-y-mujer/) - There are 595 million Spanish speakers in the world. Now, the book, enGendered, is available for them in their language.
- [Jael Rides Again](https://affirminggender.com/2023/10/12/jael-rides-again/) - A modern day story in the Hamas Massacre that brings a Biblical character back to life.
- [An Unlikely Advocate Building on Borrowed Foundations](https://affirminggender.com/2023/10/06/an-unlikely-advocate-building-on-borrowed-foundations/) - Helen Joyce, in "Trans," takes a stand. She seeks to build an edifice of why the pursuit of gender-imitation, especially in the very young, is very wrong.
- [Strange Science in the Service of a Statement](https://affirminggender.com/2018/05/03/strange-science-in-the-service-of-a-statement/) - The Endocrine Society's position statement on transgender health promises that “considerable scientific evidence...[of] a durable biological element underlying gender identity.” I am still waiting to see the “considerable evidence” for biologically based gender identity apart from biological sex.
- [Strange Science That Isn’t There](https://affirminggender.com/2018/05/09/strange-science-that-isnt-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?
- [It IS Hard To Say What A Woman Is](https://affirminggender.com/2022/04/08/it-is-hard-to-say-what-a-woman-is/) - Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Jackson couldn't answer, “What is a woman?” But she is not the only one who should have a hard time with that question.
- [The Research That Must Not Be Named](https://affirminggender.com/2023/09/29/the-research-that-must-not-be-named/) - Researchers find how it is cool to study social contagion, except when it involves gender dysphoria. Beware of trying to understand Rapid Onset.
- [Upset about the Culture’s Gender Ideology? Look to Your Own Relationships](https://affirminggender.com/2023/09/23/upset-about-the-cultures-gender-ideology-look-to-your-own-relationships/) - To help others out of gender confusion, we need to enjoy and celebrate the gift ourselves, restoring the vision the Bible gives us.
- [Metoidioplasty or Home Down Payment](https://affirminggender.com/2023/09/15/metoidioplasty-or-home-down-payment/) - “It was either get the next operation or put the down payment on a house—that was the decision.” Trans costs make a money making industry.
- [A Time to Celebrate](https://affirminggender.com/2023/09/08/a-time-to-celebrate/) - Across the Kitchen Table is available, on Kindle now, and in Paperback on Amazon tomorrow.
- [Across the Kitchen Table Book Launch Party](https://affirminggender.com/2023/08/12/across-the-kitchen-table-book-launch-party/) - 1.4% of youth ages 13-17 (c. 300,000) now identify as transgender in the US. A party in Spring City PA will launch our book to help us help gender strugglers.
- [Sex Work Versus The Bible](https://affirminggender.com/2023/08/25/sex-work-versus-the-bible/) - Efforts in at least 6 states seek to legalize "sex work.” How does this growing movement's conception of physical intimacy compare with the Bible's portrayal?
- [Barbie Has Always Been Hard to Interpret](https://affirminggender.com/2023/08/08/barbie-has-always-been-hard-to-interpret/) - It is not surprising that the new Barbie movie has drawn wildly opposing takes. The doll has always been a problem and proponent for feminism.
- [The Differences Between the Sexes (Review of Why Gender Matters, by Leonard Sax)](https://affirminggender.com/2023/07/15/the-differences-between-the-sexes-review-of-why-gender-matters-by-leonard-sax/) - On average on every trait, men and women are more similar than different, but that doesn’t make the differences irrelevant.
- [The Enigma of Mark Yarhouse](https://affirminggender.com/2022/05/06/the-enigma-of-mark-yarhouse/) - This professor of psychology is a conservative Christian who holds to the Bible's view of gender. He also chairs the APA's LGBT taskforce committee. Puzzling?
- [Tactful Take on Transgenderism from a Pastor Across the Pond](https://affirminggender.com/2018/04/18/tactful-take-on-transgenderism-from-a-pastor-across-the-pond/) - Great Britain, ‘great’ in many ways, is also ahead of America in the disintegration of gender. Transgender (Talking Points series), by Vaughan Roberts, reflects this greater experience. It understands gender dysphoria from a Christian Creation-Fall-Redemption framework.
- [Hearing the Call to Manhood](https://affirminggender.com/2023/06/23/hearing-the-call-to-manhood/) - Here is a secret: Every boy begins with doubt that he is man. The Biblical story of the young Samuel "growing in stature" pictures maturing to manhood for us.
- [The Hand on a Boy’s Shoulder](https://affirminggender.com/2023/06/30/the-hand-on-a-boys-shoulder/) - A father needs to break the cultural silence about manhood for a boy to hear his call and take the steps to becoming a man.
- [Christ is Masculinity Extraordinaire](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/29/jesus-christ-is-masculinity-extraordinaire/) - In relationship to His Church, Jesus Christ demonstrates the archetype of masculinity in its pure form. (In another context, Christ shows us where femininity came from also.) The apostle Paul calls forth the excellency of Christ becoming our husband in 1Corinthians 11:2-3, while Ephesians 5:22-33 explains it more fully, two examples among others. So if
- [Christ as the Paragon of Femininity](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/31/christ-is-the-paragon-of-femininity/) - Christ is the Paragon of Femininity “Wait, what!?” you exclaim. “That doesn’t sound right. We know that Jesus Christ was incarnate as a man, not a woman, so how can He show us femininity?” Well, you are thinking about gender in isolation again, but the Bible teaches us differently...
- [A Tribute to Tim Keller](https://affirminggender.com/2023/05/26/a-tribute-to-tim-keller/) - With the passing of Tim Keller last week, here are some fond remembrances from a congregant and mentee.
- [A Helpful Secular Approach to Youthful Gender Troubles (Review of Gender Dysphoria by Evans and Evans)](https://affirminggender.com/2023/06/02/a-helpful-secular-approach-to-youthful-gender-troubles-review-of-gender-dysphoria-by-evans-and-evans/) - A book by the doctors who were helpful in reversing Great Britain's belief-affirming model for gender dysphoric youth offers a different model.
- [Announcing a new book: Across the Kitchen Table](https://affirminggender.com/2023/05/12/announcing-a-new-book-across-the-kitchen-table/) - You sit there bewildered. Across the kitchen table, your teen has just declared “this body is not who I am.” This is throwing you for a loop. Here is some help.
- [The Trans-Gay Link](https://affirminggender.com/2023/05/19/the-trans-gay-link/) - I have friends who deal with same sex attraction and who also speak about gender confusion in their childhood or youth. What is the meaning of the connection?
- [Opportunities to Affirm Gender in Public](https://affirminggender.com/2023/05/05/opportunities-to-affirm-gender-in-public/) - Upcoming Speaking Engagements celebrate of the gift of gender. Want to join us?
- [Who is Creating Gender Stereotypes?](https://affirminggender.com/2023/04/28/transfoolery/) - The Trans education that public schools conduct today follows a curious route. It pays to understand it if you are speaking to a product of it.
- [Should I Change the Name of This Website?](https://affirminggender.com/2023/03/24/should-i-change-the-name-of-this-website/) - Confusing Title or Skilled Outreach? Help me out, here. Should I use a different name now?
- [Coming to a Relationship Near You (Review of The Gospel in the Gay Bars)](https://affirminggender.com/2022/10/07/coming-to-a-relationship-near-you-review-of-the-gospel-in-the-gay-bars/) - Gallup reports that 7.1% of all Americans now identify as LGBT+. A new book, The Gospel in the Gay Bars, helps us talk to people in the cultural orthodoxy.
- [Wounds From a Friend Can Be Trusted: Introducing Ryan Haines](https://affirminggender.com/2018/11/16/wounds-from-a-friend-can-be-trusted-introducing-ryan-haines/) - A story of how a Christian and a transgender person became friends, while disagreeing on just about everything.
- [How God Actually Changes a Life](https://affirminggender.com/2023/03/03/how-god-actually-changes-a-life/) - Prodigal, the autobiography of Wynn Cameron Thompson, demonstrates the slow but steady move of the Spirit on those that God will simply not let go of.
- [Why is All This Happening?](https://affirminggender.com/2023/02/24/why-is-all-this-happening/) - The rapidity of gender disintegration has taken most people by surprise. Many, who see the negative effects, utter in shock, “Why is all this happening?”
- [Why You Should Believe Gender is Real if You Are a Christian](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/12/why-you-should-believe-gender-is-real-if-you-are-a-christian/) - Nearly all Christians have a firm belief that humanity is made up of male and female, based on what they read in Genesis 1:27. “…male and female [God] created them.” But what about the concept of gender? Here they are fuzzy. Masculinity and Femininity are hard to define, and passing through Western schools is liable
- [Teen Trans in Three Easy Pieces](https://affirminggender.com/2021/09/03/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.
- [Scared Parents](https://affirminggender.com/2022/09/16/scared-parents/) - Why would any parents subject their children to chemical treatments and cuttings that will debilitate their child’s body for life? I am beginning to understand.
- [The Bloodbath Which is the History of Psychiatry](https://affirminggender.com/2022/09/09/the-bloodbath-which-is-the-history-of-psychiatry/) - In his new book, Desperate Remedies, Sociologist Andrew Scull has done a great service by laying out the dignified chronicle of the field of psychiatry.
- [A Prayer for Teenage Girls](https://affirminggender.com/2023/02/17/a-prayer-for-teenage-girls/) - CDC study: 3 in 5 teenage girls feel sad and hopeless, more than 1 in 4 have seriously considered suicide, up nearly 60% from 2011. The best response is to pray
- [Be Strong and Be a Man](https://affirminggender.com/2023/01/27/be-strong-and-be-a-man/) - David tells Solomon, "Be strong and be a man." Is strength a particularly masculine quality? Does one need to be strong to be a man?
- [Gender Disintegration: From the Academy to Statistics](https://affirminggender.com/2023/01/20/gender-disintegration-from-the-academy-to-statistics/) - 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?
- [Listening to Stories From the Other Side](https://affirminggender.com/2023/01/06/listening-to-stories-from-the-other-side/) - The 2018 book, Trans Life Survivors, shows the heavily populated other side of trans-surgery through collected email exchanges.
- [Better For Your Daughters to Know Why You Submit](https://affirminggender.com/2022/12/09/better-for-your-daughters-to-know-why-you-submit/) - The "why" of the Bible's gender instruction is not an easy or popular topic, but the church had better keep conversing with her daughters about it.
- [A Fundamental of Being Human](https://affirminggender.com/2022/12/30/a-fundamental-of-being-human/) - What was among the most important events of this year? My choice would be the large number of transgender drugs and surgeries that 2022 witnessed.
- [The Christmas Story: Marriage By Mission](https://affirminggender.com/2022/12/23/marriage-by-mission/) - God chose to bring the Messiah smack dab into the middle of a marriage engagement story. What on earth was He thinking in this Christmas story?
- [The Really Upsetting Thing about the Respect for Marriage Act](https://affirminggender.com/2022/12/16/the-really-upsetting-thing-about-the-respect-for-marriage-act/) - This week, with great celebration, President Biden signed the “Respect for Marriage” Act, seeking to normalize monogendered unions. That is not the scary part.
- [Respect For Marriage: Is SSA as Unchanging as Ethnicity?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/11/18/respect-for-marriage-is-ssa-as-unchanging-as-ethnicity/) - The new act in Congress to codify monogendered marriage presupposes the immutability of sexual desire, like ethnicity. But research shows it is not so.
- [“Let us…”’ Unveil God](https://affirminggender.com/2017/09/06/let-us-unveil-god/) - In Genesis 1:26, The Creator said, “Let us make man in our image.” The first time that the Trinity is explicitly indicated is in the creation of gender.
- [Why You Need the Pactum Salutis in Your Life](https://affirminggender.com/2022/11/11/why-you-need-the-pactum-salutis-in-your-life/) - The doctrine teaches that for us sinners to be saved, the trinitarian Persons entered into a pact with each Other in eternity about how to do it.
- [The Fallen Gaze](https://affirminggender.com/2022/09/30/the-fallen-gaze/) - The fruit was delicious, but it was a different taste than she had tasted before, as if something was mixed in, something her body didn’t know what to make of.
- [Boys Wearing Nail Polish](https://affirminggender.com/2022/11/04/boys-wearing-nail-polish/) - It is not uncommon now to see boys sporting painted nails. How do you respond? What is the conversation with your son or friend?
- [Listen to Genderly Dating](https://affirminggender.com/2022/10/28/listen-to-genderly-dating/) - You can now hear Dating with Discernment read to you, available through Audible and, I suppose, wherever fine audiobooks are sold.
- [She was Made from Him](https://affirminggender.com/2022/09/23/she-was-made-from-him/) - The Apostle Paul helps us read the Genesis 2 story to learn masculinity and femininity. One was “made from” the other, the second great asymmetry of gender.
- [The Fall Gender Victory Tour](https://affirminggender.com/2022/09/02/the-fall-gender-victory-tour/) - To help gender recovery, I am going on a fall speaking tour. Join us for the appearance near you to uncover and recover the power of God's gift in relationship.
- [I’ve Stopped Talking About Sex](https://affirminggender.com/2022/08/26/ive-stopped-talking-about-sex/) - The author is far from prudish. So why is he no longer am comfortable speaking of “sex,” referring to the physical act of intimacy?
- [Governor Wolf Sets Pennsylvania on a Sad Road](https://affirminggender.com/2022/08/19/governor-wolf-sets-pennsylvania-on-a-sad-road/) - On Tuesday Governor Wolf marshaled the power of the Pennsylvania government against therapy which helps youth become comfortable with their bodies. For science?
- [Abortion a Crime? Prosecute the Father.](https://affirminggender.com/2022/08/12/abortion-a-crime-prosecute-the-father/) - If the country comes to recognize life in the womb, then legal protection will imply penalty for taking that life. A child is always a matter of three people...
- [He Had to Come by a Woman and Not by a Man](https://affirminggender.com/2017/12/23/he-had-to-come-by-a-woman-and-not-by-a-man/) - Why not have Christ come through a man, the wonder of it being that it was done w/o a woman? So long as God is doing a miracle, why not do it the other way?
- [It Wasn’t Culturally Hard To Include Women](https://affirminggender.com/2022/08/05/it-wasnt-culturally-hard-to-include-women/) - The Bible's gender asymmetries are hard to miss. But maybe they are cultural necessities. Did God limit Israel's priesthood to men because of cultural pressure?
- [How We Wished It Had Gone](https://affirminggender.com/2022/07/29/how-we-wished-it-had-gone/) - A woman's fateful walk to the center of the grove.
- [Genspect and the Runaway Train](https://affirminggender.com/2022/07/22/genspect-and-the-runaway-train/) - Genspect.org is a well of help for parents and the trans-effected who are willing to challenge the cultural narrative of “just be trans." But will it work?
- [Parenting is Gendered](https://affirminggender.com/2022/07/15/parenting-is-gendered/) - Given that the surrounding culture is taking an increasingly pagan path, what does the Bible says Christian families should look like in contradistinction.
- [Free Book of Your Choice from Cruciform!](https://affirminggender.com/2022/01/17/free-book-of-your-choice-from-cruciform/) - Publisher offers any book in their catalog for a review of their new dating book. A great offer if you like good books.
- [Does the Old Testament Endorse Polygamy?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/07/08/does-the-old-testament-endorse-polygamy/) - Does God wink at the Old Testament guys He liked, like Abraham and David, when they took multiple wives? Is this Exhibit A of the Bible’s patriarchal misogyny?
- [Roe Vs. Wade as Great Revealer](https://affirminggender.com/2022/07/01/roe-vs-wade-as-great-revealer/) - The response to overturning Roe vs. Wade reveals a lot about what our culture values. How does it compare with the story of humanity that God tells?
- [Are Fathers Needed?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/06/24/are-fathers-needed/) - The Apostle Paul and the Prophet Malachi single out fathers as the lynchpin of family well-being. Let Father's Day renew this sacred task.
- [Encouraging Steps of the Church](https://affirminggender.com/2022/06/17/encouraging-steps-of-the-church/) - In a review of the book, "Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian," by Michelle Lee-Barnewall, we get some of that encouragement
- [Soul Mates Find Out Too Late](https://affirminggender.com/2022/06/10/soul-mates-find-out-too-late/) - Singles seeking a spouse by Soul Mate thinking sink. It is only a shadow of the Bible's better way to date, via the deeper asymmetry of origin.
- [Gay Pride Month and the Christian](https://affirminggender.com/2022/06/03/gay-pride-month-and-the-christian/) - Someone who cannot celebrate LGBT+ recently asked me, how should we respond to Gay Pride Month? When convictions and culture clash, what's the best strategy?
- [The Need to Go Deep](https://affirminggender.com/2022/05/27/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.
- [Technology as a Gender-Distinguisher](https://affirminggender.com/2022/05/20/technology-as-a-gender-distinguisher/) - A prescient fictional story shows how the genders will likely interact with the increasingly immersive tech of our lives.
- [Does Paul Tell Women to Refuse Head Coverings?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/05/13/does-paul-tell-women-to-refuse-head-coverings/) - A scholar seeks to circumvent the the famous text affirming gender asymmetry by claiming it is just Paul quoting his adversaries. Does the argument hold up?
- [Is Domestic Abuse Just as Prevalent In the Church?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/04/29/is-domestic-abuse-just-as-prevalent-in-the-church/) - Domestic abuse is a reality of our world, for as far back as the Biblical record goes. But are “the statistics the same inside our churches as outside them”?
- [Are Women Different from Men? (Part II: What a Woman Is)](https://affirminggender.com/2022/04/22/are-women-different-from-men-part-ii-of-what-is-a-woman/) - Aren’t men and women different? As the culture yells at us to call women men and men women, don’t we want to keep their essential differences front and center?
- [The Daughter of the Great City](https://affirminggender.com/2022/04/15/the-daughter-of-the-great-city/) - I never took for granted that I and my children resided in the greatest city. But it all came crashing down that day when he spoke.
- [Does Paul say, “Act like a man!” to the Corinthians?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/03/25/does-paul-say-act-like-a-man-to-the-corinthians/) - In the English Standard Version (ESV) of 1Corinthians 16, the apostle commands the church to be strong, to stand firm, to “act like a man!” Is that accurate?
- [Really Helpful List of Ex-gay, Ex-trans and Gender Celebrating Ministries](https://affirminggender.com/2022/03/17/really-helpful-list-of-ex-gay-ex-trans-and-gender-celebrating-ministries/) - Looking for a place that celebrates God-Given Gender? A new ministry list provides a helpful resource, from an unexpected source.
- [Neuroplasticity and Change in Sexual Desires](https://affirminggender.com/2022/03/11/neuroplasticity-and-change-in-sexual-desires/) - The truth that in Christ people can actually change is fundamental to the Christian message. Neuroscience is catching up with the idea.
- [Is Gender in Every Passage of the Bible?](https://affirminggender.com/2022/03/04/is-gender-in-every-passage-of-the-bible/) - In a book that begins w/the creation of gender, ends w/a wedding and fills the in-between w/how males & females are to be His image, gender is going to come up.
- [What Enoch Thinks, Part III: Big gender issue](https://affirminggender.com/2022/02/24/what-enoch-thinks-part-iii-big-gender-issue/) - In conversation with Enoch, young man at large, the college senior has seen many relationship crashes and misfires. The topic turned to gender... |
- [Surprise, Surprise: Cohabiting Increases Chances of Divorce (Who Knew?)](https://affirminggender.com/2022/02/17/surprise-surprise-cohabiting-increases-chances-of-divorce-who-knew/) - 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.
- [Looking at The Trinity Without Diverting Our Eyes: Reply to Claire Smith, PART V](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/10/looking-at-the-trinity-without-diverting-our-eyes-reply-to-claire-smith-part-v/) - One of the most interesting conversations the book, enGendered, seems to spawn concerns the nature of things between the Members of the Triune God. Whereas this topic is often avoided for fear of speaking heresy, I suggest that there is too much in the Scriptures that encourage us to find the ground of our relationships
- [Trinitarian Advances: In praise of Arthur Wainwright](https://affirminggender.com/2022/02/10/trinitarian-advances-in-praise-of-arthur-wainwright/) - Arthur Wainwright's 1962 classic on the Trinity in the New Testament was something new. He asked, "What on earth were the apostolic authors thinking?"
- [What Enoch Says (Part II): Questioning Cohabitation](https://affirminggender.com/2022/02/03/what-enoch-says-part-ii-questioning-cohabitation/) - Despite the accumulated social science data on its disastrous consequences, the number of cohabitating couples continues to rise.
- [People Meet Their Dates Online](https://affirminggender.com/2022/01/27/people-meet-their-dates-online/) - 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?
- [What Enoch Thinks (Part I - The Asymmetrical Questions)](https://affirminggender.com/2022/01/20/what-enoch-thinks-part-i-the-asymmetrical-questions/) - Watch as my dating son asks what is really on his mind.
- [Why I Wrote a Book on Dating](https://affirminggender.com/2022/01/13/why-i-wrote-a-book-on-dating/) - According to the U.S. Census Bureau, married couples now make up less than half of American households. Less than half.
- [Christmas in Revelation III – When the Love of Many Grows Cold](https://affirminggender.com/2022/01/06/christmas-in-revelation-iii-when-the-love-of-many-grows-cold/) - Let us keep on with intergendered love because thus our redemption has been worked.
- [Christmas in the Book of Revelation I: The Paradigm of Gender](https://affirminggender.com/2021/12/23/christmas-in-the-book-of-revelation-i/) - John's vision of Christmas in Ch. 12 of Revelation gives us how history unfolds, through the archetypes of gender.
- [Christmas in the Book of Revelation II -An Enduring Paradigm](https://affirminggender.com/2021/12/29/christmas-in-the-book-of-revelation-ii-an-enduring-paradigm/) - Revelation 12's great sign of how history unfolds, shows the paradigm of gender in bringing redemption.
- [Both Together - Gender Praising God](https://affirminggender.com/2021/12/11/both-together-gender-praising-god/) - Psalm 148 summons gender to praise God. Are we answering the call?
- [The Wedding Night](https://affirminggender.com/2021/12/03/the-wedding-night/) - 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.
- [The High Cost of Sinful Masculine Leaders](https://affirminggender.com/2021/11/27/the-high-cost-of-sinful-masculine-leaders/) - One reason many miss the beauty of what the Bible teaches are unfaithful Christian men who lead, obscuring the goodness of masculinity.
- [What does God think of your Society? Look at how Women are Treated.](https://affirminggender.com/2021/11/19/what-does-god-think-of-your-society-look-at-how-women-are-treated/) - The LGBTQIA+ Ideology is bad for women. It does not bode well.
- [Talking About Transgender](https://affirminggender.com/2021/11/11/talking-about-transgender/) - A recent NYC Higher Ground ministry meeting discussed transgenderism. The evening's reading offers a helpful summary of the issues currently, for those looking for clear answers.
- [How to Avoid Marrying An Abusive Husband](https://affirminggender.com/2021/11/05/how-to-avoid-marrying-an-abusive-husband/) - Some husbands make big demands. Over time, this can become an abusive relationship. How does one distinguish mere immaturity from a lurking pattern of exploitation?
- [He’s Got This](https://affirminggender.com/2021/10/29/hes-got-this/) - Alarmed at cultural gender trends? Worried about a crumbling world? What should be the response of our hearts?
- [Tennyson on Relationship Building](https://affirminggender.com/2021/10/16/tennyson-on-relationship-building/) - Tennyson's lively retelling of one of the oldest Arthurian legends, Geraint & Enid, brilliantly portrays how early marriages typically go, and how they can grow.
- [“My Son,” Says the Proverbs](https://affirminggender.com/2021/09/30/my-son-says-the-proverbs/) - “This is frustrating!” quipped a female relative as she surveyed the Biblical book, Proverbs. It seemed unbalanced to her.
- [Finding a Firstborn (new book excerpt)](https://affirminggender.com/2021/09/23/finding-a-firstborn-new-book-excerpt/) - This Dating-with-Discernment book excerpt advises women daters: you want a man in whom you can invest authority. I.e., you want a guy who is able to take charge for you. Those last 2 words are important.
- [“No Living Man Am I” (new book excerpt)](https://affirminggender.com/2021/09/18/no-living-man-am-i-new-book-excerpt/) - 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.
- [Which one would you pick up to find out more?](https://affirminggender.com/2021/06/18/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?
- [Dating with Discernment: 12 Questions to Make a Lasting Marriage](https://affirminggender.com/2021/08/12/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.
- [Note to My Younger Woman Self](https://affirminggender.com/2021/09/11/note-to-my-younger-woman-self/) - I recently spoke with a woman who was bemoaning how men and women do not equally share child care. I remember worrying about that when I was in my twenties.
- [Presidential Failure in Masculinity](https://affirminggender.com/2021/08/21/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.
- [How to Improve Your Marriage -It’s not Voodoo](https://affirminggender.com/2021/08/04/how-to-improve-your-marriage-its-not-voodoo/) - In the Bible book, The Song of Songs, we find a lot of gender distinction in the urgings of the Shulammite Bride. Her vision of the ideal love can help us in our marriages. These practical principles of gender are very similar to those outlined by the Apostle Paul.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](https://affirminggender.com/2021/07/27/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](https://affirminggender.com/2021/07/17/working-with-my-wife/) - #post_excerptOne of the exceptional experiences I have had in later life is working together with my wife, Mary K.
- [The Equality Act and Changes in Sexual Desire](https://affirminggender.com/2021/06/16/the-equality-act-and-changes-in-sexual-desire/) - H.R.5, or The Equality Act, recently passed in the House. One of its assumptions is demonstrably false: the immutability of sexual desires. 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
- [On Pilgrimage](https://affirminggender.com/2019/01/07/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
- [A Homosexual in Hell](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/02/a-homosexual-in-hell/) - The 13th century Florentine author, Dante Alighieri, wrote The Divine Comedy to give an allegorical look at life after death, and Volume I, Inferno, describes the famous circles of hell. His portrayal offers an important insight into the path to hell and a godly attitude towards those on it.
- [Rattlesnakes on the Path of enGendered: Reply to Aimee Byrd, Part 3](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/10/rattlesnakes-on-the-path-of-engendered-reply-to-aimee-byrd-part-3/) - As I’ve been saying, Aimee Byrd, aka the Housewife Theologian, in a book review of enGendered on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals website, raises some good questions, which I have tried to address here. But Ms. Byrd’s most serious concern is over whether I have erred in finding the deep meaning of our genders
- [Sticking to Paul's Categories: Reply to Aimee Byrd, Part 2](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/03/reply-to-aimee-byrd-part-2/) - Aimee Byrd, aka the Housewife Theologian, gave my book a review in 2017 on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals website. I must say, Ms. Byrd asks good questions that deserve answers. I responded to some concerns she raised in a previous post (Part 1), and continue that walk in the woods here, hopefully helping
- [Grudging or Celebrating? : Reply to Aimee Byrd, Part 1](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/01/reply-to-aimee-byrd-part-1/) - Aimee Byrd, aka Housewife Theologian, read my book and gave it a thoughtful review in a 2017 column on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals website. She picked up my metaphor of relationship as a walk in the woods and, by her interaction with the text, walked with me a little while. Her concerns deserve a
- [Next Gift of Gender Conference](https://affirminggender.com/2019/07/12/next-gift-of-gender-conference/) - I will be conducting a Gift of Gender conference next Friday night-Saturday day (July 19-20, 2019) at Everett Assembly of God Church.
- [I Have a Friend Who Just Told Me She is Gay...](https://affirminggender.com/2019/01/01/i-have-a-friend-who-just-told-me-she-is-gay/) - Today, a letter from a young woman (name changed) with a question to which EVERYONE should have a ready answer. Here is mine... Pastor Andreades, You may not remember me, but my name is Jocelyn. You gave me a free copy of your book Engendered when you came to speak at [a certain venue] and signed it
- [Who is Watching the Changes in SSA Percentages?](https://affirminggender.com/2018/12/26/who-is-watching-the-changes-in-ssa-percentages/) - According to a recent talk I heard, 11% of American adolescents now experience same-sex attraction (SSA). In fact, another study found that 7.6% of millenials now identify as gay. These numbers are extremely high historically. I have monitored the prevalence of same-sex attraction using only reliable studies (read: like not The Kinsey Report). Up until
- [He Called Them Two By Two](https://affirminggender.com/2018/12/13/he-called-them-two-by-two/) - Headlines proclaiming medical breakthroughs enabling lesbian couples to bear children are misleading. The dimorphic reproductive process remains God's call.
- [Pornography and the Ancient Counsel of Balaam](https://affirminggender.com/2018/12/06/pornography-and-the-ancient-counsel-of-balaam/) - The way to oppose Israel was to destroy her relationship with God. The ancient Balaam suggested a substitute love offensive. His counsel still destroys today.
- [An Existential and Miserable Hero](https://affirminggender.com/2018/11/30/an-existential-and-miserable-hero/) - An attractive writer's entertaining prose in the NY Times only thinly masks the harsh reality of hopelessness. The stark confessions of our culture's new hero.
- [Wounds From a Friend Can Be Trusted -Part 2](https://affirminggender.com/2018/11/22/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?
- [Teachers, Take Heart](https://affirminggender.com/2018/11/07/teachers-take-heart/) - The key members of society now find themselves in a predicament. Can school and home-school teachers address a new gender-minimizing generation?
- [Harvest USA-A Great Place to Get Help](https://affirminggender.com/2018/10/30/harvest-usa-a-great-place-to-get-help/) - For gender problems, you need helpers who can stand against the cultural tides from experience helping in real-life scenarios that others don’t talk about.
- [A Poorly Gendered Wedding in the Bible](https://affirminggender.com/2018/10/18/a-poorly-gendered-wedding-in-the-bible/) - Does a passage in Ecclesiastes teach a negative view of women or the bitterness of a man who beds many of them?
- [A Well Gendered Wedding in the Bible](https://affirminggender.com/2018/10/06/a-well-gendered-wedding-in-the-bible/) - Looking for a wedding Scripture? Psalm 45, an ode to a royal wedding, is a sensual poem that shows what is important in marriage.
- [Sexual Sin-A Category All Its Own](https://affirminggender.com/2018/09/28/sexual-sin-a-category-all-its-own/) - “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 he mean?
- [When a Husband Defies a Wife](https://affirminggender.com/2018/09/20/when-a-husband-defies-a-wife/) - “When Mamma Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy.” A wife, when her will is defied, has ways of making a husband’s life miserable. Is there a stand against it?
- [You Cannot Know Yourself Alone](https://affirminggender.com/2018/09/13/you-cannot-know-yourself-alone/) - Some say, “I have a woman body but am a man inside.” Yet how do we know our inside selves? Can we do it w/o help from the outside--our bodies, friends, Creator?
- [The Best Thing About the Quarryville Affirming Gender Seminar](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/12/the-best-thing-about-the-quarryville-affirming-gender-seminar/) - For those who have been asking, the Quarryville Affirming Gender Seminar in February went terrifically. We had folks from all over the area who came to the three sessions (Friday night, Saturday morning) and brought their questions and struggles with them. Though the people from my congregation had an edge in the Book-Give-Away-Bible-Question contests (because
- [AffirmingGender Summer 2017 Calendar](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/05/affirminggender-summer-17-calendar/) - Hey, for those of you who missed previous conferences and events, and would like to catch one, come Affirm Gender with me at one of these upcoming venues. Peace Presbyterian Church is hosting a conference with Rosaria Butterfield and myself speaking on September 30. And here are some others...
- [AffirmingGender Fall 2017 Calendar](https://affirminggender.com/2017/09/01/affirminggender-fall-2017-calendar/) - 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
- [Sunny Affirming Gender Events: Summer 2018 Calendar](https://affirminggender.com/2018/04/11/sunny-affirming-gender-events-in-the-coming-summer-months/) - As the weather heats up, along with the controversy surrounding gender issues, Affirming Gender is hitting the road. 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.
- [Not an Outlaw After All (Yet)](https://affirminggender.com/2018/09/06/not-an-outlaw-after-all-yet/) - CA bill AB2943 labeled it fraud to sell something saying SSA could change. It passed in congress, but author Evan Low withdrew it. What does this say re change?
- [The Predatory Part of Gay Culture](https://affirminggender.com/2018/08/30/the-predatory-part-of-gay-culture/) - The Roman Catholic priesthood scandal revealed by the PA Grand Jury Report and Archbishop Viganò's letter arises from a deep predatory element in gay culture.
- [Muddy Guests --Ready Yourself to Help the Gender Dysphoric](https://affirminggender.com/2018/08/28/muddy-guests-ready-yourself-to-help-the-gender-dysphoric/) - We just put in a basement bathroom. But visitors may be muddy. As the prevalence of gender dysphoria increases, are you ready for muddy people on your doorstep?
- [The Best Three Books on Transgenderism from a Christian Perspective (Currently)](https://affirminggender.com/2018/08/16/the-best-three-books-on-transgenderism-from-a-christian-perspective-currently/) - I meet a lot of Christians looking for answers about transgenderism. If you seek reliable and understandable books to help, here are the best three I have read.
- [Marital Competition on the Rise. Guess Why?](https://affirminggender.com/2018/08/09/marital-competition-on-the-rise-guess-why/) - A WSJ article highlights spousal competition in the gender-minimizing marriages of today. But competition between partners is the very thing gender eliminates.
- [The Trinity Teaches Us Truly](https://affirminggender.com/2018/08/01/the-trinity-teaches-us-truly/) - Ephesians 5:1 tells us to be “imitators of God.” Okay. But how do we imitate God? Some theologians say that we should not look to God’s triune relationships, ad intra, as examples for our own. They say that there is nothing to prescribe our relations with one another in what They do for One Another.
- [The Critical Mass of Theybies Parenting](https://affirminggender.com/2018/07/25/the-critical-mass-of-theybies-parenting/) - NBC promotes parents raising “theybies” , not telling the child, or anyone else, what the child's gender is. This can only make being a boy or a girl not real.
- [A Typical TransRegression Story](https://affirminggender.com/2018/07/18/a-typical-transregression-story/) - Tim was a troubled 20-something year old. One day he learned about transgenderism and thought, “This is it!” He started taking hormones to change his body...
- [Thoughts on NYC Pride from a Former Parader](https://affirminggender.com/2018/06/27/thoughts-on-nyc-pride-from-a-former-parader/) - My name is Peter and I once marched those parades during “my former life,” when I self-identified as gay from my mid-20s to early 40s, in the 1980s and '90s.
- [Does “Queer Theology” Work?](https://affirminggender.com/2018/07/11/does-queer-theology-work/) - I recently was interviewed by a young student studying queer theology, trying to figure out what she believed. What is queer theology, you ask? Let's look.
- [The Problem with Revoicing Our Desires](https://affirminggender.com/2018/07/04/the-problem-with-revoicing-our-desires/) - Those who might follow Christ but who struggle with sexual desires that contradict Christ’s call are not helped by underselling the depth of our problem.
- [A Brief but Deep-digging Mohl](https://affirminggender.com/2018/06/20/a-brief-but-deep-digging-mohl/) - A highlighting of the very fine cultural engagement work carried out every weekday by the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Albert Mohler.
- [A Conversation About Who We Are](https://affirminggender.com/2018/06/18/a-conversation-about-who-we-are/) - A providential conversation w/a Trinitarian theologian briefly explores who we are. These thinkers re the great Three in One caretake the keys to the universe.
- [A Relationship Miracle](https://affirminggender.com/2018/06/06/a-relationship-miracle/) - I knew that something had gone down. He came back with that look, that faraway look, like he belonged to another country. I had seen that look before, and those times it meant something crazy was coming.
- [Ahh, Priscilla](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/10/ahh-priscilla/) - People of a certain persuasion often refer to Acts 18 to argue that we should make no distinctions between women and men in the church or, at least, that women should authoritatively teach in the church. Consider the verses with me: 1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a
- [Ready to Give a Reason](https://affirminggender.com/2018/05/31/ready-to-give-a-reason/) - The Gift of Gender, a new non-profit corporation in the state of Pennsylvania, is born.
- [The Single Biggest Way to Improve Your Relationships](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/14/the-single-biggest-way-to-improve-your-relationships/) - To improve our relationships, we must first ask a question with a deep answer. Can you come along with me for a little theology? The question is, Why do we have relationships? The answer for the Christian is that God is trinity. God has relationship within God’s triune Self. The Three are co-equal (and co-eternal),
- [About to be an Outlaw in California](https://affirminggender.com/2018/04/25/about-to-be-an-outlaw-in-california/) - With the passing of California Assembly Bill 2943 last Thursday, I will soon become an outlaw in the state of California and my book will be illegal to sell there.
- [Of the Same Substance as Adam](https://affirminggender.com/2018/05/16/of-the-same-substance-as-adam/) - The simple verses of Genesis 2, explaining how women were made in the image of God, proclaim vital truths about who we are. Do you realize what a gift you are in being made as a woman or a man?
- [Go Jump In A Lake!](https://affirminggender.com/2017/08/21/go-jump-in-a-lake/) - Her name was Linda Hubka. We were in 8th grade, or was it 7th? I had decided that she was the one, and I made up my mind to ask her out. I took a deep breath and let her know that I liked her. But Linda Hubka was a discerning girl, especially for that
- [Barbie Back in the Kitchen (But Only in Secret)](https://affirminggender.com/2018/04/04/barbie-back-in-the-kitchen-but-only-in-secret/) - Of the seventeen new fantastic role model Barbies, including Conservationist Barbie, Boxing Champion Barbie, and Mathematician Barbie, most are not available for sale. Instead Mattel will focus sales on a Barbie line that highlights baking and cooking based on “proven play patterns.”
- [A Woman's Thing](https://affirminggender.com/2018/03/21/a-womans-problem/) - I am a woman who has struggled intensely with lust and sexual sin for most of my life, while also battling deep shame in the context of a church that always speaks about sexuality as a man's struggle. The painful lie is that something is disgustingly wrong with me, that especially in church, I can't talk about it.
- [The Starting Lines Don’t Matter](https://affirminggender.com/2018/03/28/the-starting-lines-dont-matter/) - People have a hard time suppressing all of God’s truth. There is usually some of His common grace operating wherever you see relationships. When you come to recognize the Biblical principles of gender, you can see the good happening even when dressed in some gaudily bad outfits.
- [Do I Agree to Use Their Pronouns?](https://affirminggender.com/2018/02/14/do-i-agree-to-use-their-pronouns/) -  Do you agree to use “she” to refer to your trans-man uncle? Do you accept your niece’s insistence that she is really a ‘he’ and you should call her…that is him, that? Soon all of us will face this question as our culture continues to shred gender like it was some kind of incriminating document.
- [“Born This Way” Soon to Go Away](https://affirminggender.com/2018/03/14/born-this-way-soon-to-go-away/) - If there was an anthem for the last ten years of gender minimization, it would be the sentence, “I was born this way.” The proclamation would stop conversations, halt dialogues, silence critics. Now the chorus is dying away and, like most pop songs, it will soon be forgotten.
- [The Portrayal of a Realistic Marriage: Review of the movie, Darkest Hour](https://affirminggender.com/2018/03/07/the-portrayal-of-a-realistic-marriage-review-of-the-movie-darkest-hour/) - The movie presents us with the way a marriage in an incredibly stressful situation has to work if victory would be achieved. Winston Churchill led. But we see, in the scenes including Clementine, how she needed to be quite as strong as he. And she was.
- [Where Can I Get Help? Pastoral Care Through AffirmingGender](https://affirminggender.com/2018/02/28/where-can-i-get-help-pastoral-care-through-affirminggender/) - "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.
- [When My Human Resources Department Mandates Pronouns](https://affirminggender.com/2018/02/21/when-my-human-resources-department-mandates-pronouns-use/) - Are you receiving policy mandates on pronouns? One reader writes: ...Some in my administration would like to force faculty to use the pronoun that a student chooses instead of a gender-based pronoun. The student affairs folks are also going to provide gender inclusive housing options this fall...
- [We Need Gender Motivation--Emotional intimacy: Reply to Claire Smith, PART IV](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/07/the-need-for-gender-motivation-emotional-intimacy-reply-to-claire-smith-part-iv/) - I make a lot about emotional intimacy in marriage in the book, enGendered, calling it the key to a successful marriage. That is because passages like Ephesians 5:22-33, the quintessential marriage passage in the New Testament, describe marriage in those terms (his wife is as close as the husband’s own body, he washes her by word,
- [The Real Message of the movie, “I Am Michael”](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/08/the-real-message-of-the-movie-i-am-michael/) - “You want to go to heaven, don’t you?...You need to be heterosexual.” Who actually talks like that? Certainly no one who works with same-sex attracted (SSA) people rejecting the gay identity. But so opens the film billed as “the true story” of Michael Glatze, ardent gay activist turned intergendered married Christian pastor. In the scene,
- [The Lascivious–Free Super Bowl](https://affirminggender.com/2018/02/07/the-lascivious-free-super-bowl/) - This game, like the other recent ones, have displayed repeated opportunities to marvel at the achievement of the male body. But absent was any of the usual exploitation of the female body to sell things. The female body was respected. And we were free to celebrate the male.
- [Trinitarian Delight](https://affirminggender.com/2018/01/31/trinitarian-delight/) - Want to understand the Trinity of God more deeply and clearly? British Trinitarian Theologian, Michael Reeves is that most wonderful of all things, a theologian with a sense of humor. His book brings a cheerful clarity and an appreciation of how God’s internal relationships can inform and inspire our own.
- [A Deepening Reflection of God in His Creatures](https://affirminggender.com/2018/01/24/a-deepening-reflection-of-god-in-his-creatures/) - Our being made male and female is an important part of being made in God's Image. Yet being physical sexes aren't unique to humans, but are found throughout creation, including in plants and flowers. This means that the human gift of gender goes far beyond just maleness and femaleness.
- [Who Are the Other Transgendered?](https://affirminggender.com/2018/01/17/who-are-the-other-transgendered/) - I've done a new short video to highlight a big component of transgenderism that is usually ignored. Why do most people who cross-dress cross-dress? It is not gender dysphoria.
- [When A Position Against Homosexuality is Just Bigotry](https://affirminggender.com/2018/01/10/when-a-position-against-homosexuality-is-just-bigotry/) - A minister friend at a job interview found a puzzling pair of views: no difference at all between women and men in a church was right and gayness was wrong.
- [Video on Affirming Gender](https://affirminggender.com/2018/01/03/video-on-affirming-gender/) - 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, NC.
- [Top AffirmingGender Posts of 2017: Did you miss one?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/12/29/top-affirminggender-posts-of-2017-did-you-miss-one/) - 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.
- [The Nutcracker: Odious Fluff or Timeless Type?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/12/13/the-nutcracker-odious-fluff-or-timeless-type/) - Every year I argue with my husband about The Nutcracker ballet. He considers it an insufferable time-waster, nothing to do with the real Christmas. But I plead...
- [The Woman’s (not really) Bible](https://affirminggender.com/2017/11/29/the-womans-not-really-bible/) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s aim was to elevate women and she saw the Bible as a prime enemy of that goal. But her commentary misses the Bible's beautiful balance.
- [Thoughtful Teens Start to Talk Back](https://affirminggender.com/2017/11/22/thoughtful-teens-start-to-talk-back/) - The question had to come eventually: "Will altering my body, like doctors are pressing me to do, really help me?” New websites are forming to allow answers.
- [Marriage Counseling with My Wife](https://affirminggender.com/2017/11/15/marriage-counseling-with-my-wife/) - It is great when my wife can join me for pastoral marriage counseling . We take their problem into ourselves and end up having the argument they need to have.
- [Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit: What it's REALLY About](https://affirminggender.com/2017/11/08/what-blasphemy-against-the-holy-spirit-is-really-about/) - What is the terrible sin of “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?”The key to what is really going on is seeing that this is about the Trinitarian relationships.
- [The Other Side of the Equation: Review of The Red Pill (A Cassie Jaye Documentary)](https://affirminggender.com/2017/11/01/the-other-side-of-the-equation-review-of-the-red-pill-a-cassie-jaye-documentary/) - Don’t let Cassie Jaye's obscure choice of title, The Red Pill, keep you from diving down her rabbit hole of a documentary, a disturbing, compelling look at the Men’s Rights Movement.
- [Yoko Needs to Break Up the Band](https://affirminggender.com/2017/10/25/yoko-needs-to-break-up-the-band/) - The break-up of the Beatles broke the heart of a generation. A lot of the blame at the time fell upon Yoko Ono. And you know what? It needed to happen.
- [Three Questions Our Culture Can No Longer Answer](https://affirminggender.com/2017/10/18/three-questions-our-culture-can-no-longer-answer/) - 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 Faith Church Affirming Gender Seminar is Approaching!](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/22/the-faith-church-affirming-gender-seminar-is-approaching/) - We are making final preparations here at Faith Church in Quarryville to host the first AffirmingGender event of the year. Our flyer with the event information has been well-publicized locally and we are coordinating with the FC Social-Outreach Committee to make it a great time. The conference will begin Friday night at 7:30pm with music
- [Three Things You Need When Your Adult Child Says, “I am gay.”](https://affirminggender.com/2017/10/04/three-things-you-need-when-your-adult-child-says-i-am-gay/) - To Christian parents, those three words are a shock, beginning a cascade of difficult feelings. Despite the cultural shift, most Christians still disagree that adopting a gay identity is a good move so hearing those three words still brings anguish. After years of AffirmingGender ministry, I find this to be an increasingly common experience among
- [The Birth of the Homosexual](https://affirminggender.com/2017/10/11/the-birth-of-the-homosexual/) - Michel Foucault dated the birth of homosexuality to 1870, when he said "inverting the masculine and feminine on itself" became what he called "a species."
- [Roses and Champagne in a Field of Butter](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/31/roses-and-champagne-in-a-field-of-butter/) - The same year enGendered was published (2015), Rosaria Champagne Butterfield released Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ. I want AffirmingGender readers to know of this work. This sequel to her first Christian book opens with further reflections on her conversion. As she goes on, Dr.
- [Desires are Moral](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/04/desires-are-moral/) - All our desires have a moral direction. God gave us sexual desire, which is a great thing, but it is now all out of whack in us. Sexual attraction for someone
- [Gender Dysphoria is a Nice-Sounding Term](https://affirminggender.com/2017/09/20/gender-dysphoria-is-a-nice-sounding-term/) - When spoken, it wafts gently through the air. It rhymes soothingly w/euphoria. It almost sounds peaceful. To those who experience it, it is anything but...
- [Comorbidity –A Word We Should All Know](https://affirminggender.com/2017/09/27/comorbidity-a-word-we-should-all-know/) - One term that should never be allowed to wander very far from gender dysphoria is comorbidity, a word that we are liable not to know if we are not doctors.
- [I Was Not Expecting Sam's Proposal](https://affirminggender.com/2017/09/13/i-was-completely-in-the-dark-with-this-proposal/) - I, Mary K. Carter, was not expecting a proposal. Sure, I liked him, but there were so many red flags. We met at a Sixties costume dance. Sam, who was a street musician, did not need to wear a costume, because he already looked the part. I was an artist, recently converted to Christianity. I
- [How to Tell a Guy, “Go Jump in a Lake!”](https://affirminggender.com/2017/08/30/how-to-tell-a-guy-go-jump-in-a-lake/) - One reader asks, in response to the Jump-In-The-Lake post, “How can I say “no” to a man asking me out in a way that does not crush, but rather encourages, his masculinity?” I could think of no better person to answer this than one of the world’s leading experts in encouraging masculinity: Mary K.
- [The Big Frolicking Circle on the Deep](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/03/the-big-frolicking-circle-on-the-deep/) - The following is an excerpt from enGendered, one of the "Scenic Overlooks." This one opens the book. The idea of these is to try and guess while you are reading what Bibilcal passage is being imagined, before the last line. If it completely throws you for a loop, don't worry--I'll explain it after: I was
- [What are Our Real Differences?: Reply to Claire Smith, Part III](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/03/what-are-our-real-differences-reply-to-claire-smith-part-iii/) - Onward to answer more of Claire Smith’s criticisms of enGendered (politely dressed as questions—thank you kindly, Dr. Smith!). Dr. Smith questions what I’ve said the asymmetries of gender are. So let’s revisit whence masculinity and femininity, enGendered style, arise. When we listen to how the Bible distinguishes men and women in their callings to
- [Qualified to Speak: An admiration of Glenn T. Stanton](https://affirminggender.com/2017/08/16/qualified-to-speak-an-admiration-of-glenn-t-stanton/) - A question often asked of me while Affirming Gender is how to deal with friends or loved ones making gender decisions we feel are bad for them. A book I often recommend, especially if short on time to answer, is Glenn T. Stanton’s Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor: Being Friends in Grace and Truth (2014). Mr.
- [The Amazing SRY Gene: The Male On-Off Switch](https://affirminggender.com/2017/07/19/the-amazing-sry-gene-the-male-on-off-switch/) - The waterfall of information pouring forth from the mapping of the human genome continues to supply wondrous insight into our selves. One of these watershed discoveries came when the British researcher, Peter Goodfellow, identified the SRY gene as the male on-off switch (Nature 348 (1990): 448–50). When we say that a person’s sex, male
- [The Enfleshment of Ultimate Meaning](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/07/the-enfleshment-of-ultimate-meaning/) - The human being is not a soul “in” a body. Because of the profound unity of body and soul in God’s design, our bodies are not something we “have” or “own” alongside ourselves. In a very real way, we are our bodies. Our bodies reveal the spiritual mystery of our souls.
- [Alternative Trans-Stories](https://affirminggender.com/2017/08/02/alternative-trans-stories/) - No shortage of stories of how wonderful it is to transition to another sex. But the folks who do it & come to see a better way never seem to get the microphone.
- [Transgender Regret Stories and Where to Hear Them](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/09/transgender-regret-stories-and-where-to-find-them/) - Talk about regrets of folks who have transitioned to the gender opposite to their body of birth is liable to draw a blank stare from people today, maybe from you too. What? You have never heard of anybody regretting such a decision (or, more painfully, their parents’ decision) to adopt a self-chosen gender? You think
- [How Does This Gender Talk Square with the Westminster Confession of Faith?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/07/26/how-does-this-gender-talk-square-with-the-westminster-confession-of-faith/) - Recently asked, Where is this gender teaching in Westminster Confession? Good question. Rephrase: Where is gender in Christian Church confessional standards?
- [AffirmingGender in Summer So Far](https://affirminggender.com/2017/07/12/affirminggender-in-summer-so-far/) - 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
- [What Women Should Do In Church: Three Easy and Essential Guidelines](https://affirminggender.com/2017/07/05/what-women-should-do-in-church-three-easy-and-essential-guidelines/) - What does Gender mean for the activities in a Christian church? Should men only be doing certain things? Are there ministries that only women should do or are there offices inappropriate for women to fill? Every church needs to decide questions like these as part of its constitution and work. The Bible gives some
- [Wonder Woman's Lopsided Inspiration](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/21/__trashed/) - It is too bad that in all the ways this character can inspire young women, she is not able to teach them what will make their relationships intimate.
- [Announcement for Subscriber Friends](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/18/announcement-for-subscriber-friends/) - 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
- [Where to Affirm Gender (Public Speaking engagements so far planned in 2017)](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/02/where-to-affirm-gender-public-speaking-engagements-so-far-planned-in-2017/) - As far as engagements open to the public, we are beginning the year Affirming Gender locally. My own Faith Church will be hosting a seminar later this month. So if you are somewhere near southern Lancaster County, come join the fun! Date: February 24-25 (Friday night-Saturday morning) Place: Faith Reformed Presbyterian Church --611 Robert Fulton Highway,
- [Where to See Our Genders --Reply to Claire Smith, Part II](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/30/where-to-see-our-genders-reply-to-claire-smith-part-ii/) - In the first part of this rejoinder to Claire Smith’s thoughtful questioning of enGendered¸ I talked about being careful in using the label, “complementarian.” One had better define it to use it. But it is clear that Dr. Smith understood how I was defining gender in terms of relationship. That I do do, saying that
- [Incalculable Benefits I Get From My Wife](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/14/incalculable-benefits-i-get-from-my-wife/) - My wife, Marika, is the most extraordinary person I think I have ever met. Today as I awoke, I wondered how it was that, of all the people in the world, I got to be married to her. There are obvious benefits to marriage, of course, sharing life and pleasures with one another. But
- [I saw it begin at Yale in 1980...](https://affirminggender.com/2016/12/31/i-saw-it-begin-at-yale-in-1980/) - It was in the campus air. Women’s Studies had begun as a field, laying a groundwork for Queer Theory in the 1990s. The people in the know would introduce it slowly, of course, to make sure it wasn’t completely abhorrent. It was the program to tear down the gender binary. I noticed it in
- [Three Questions You Should Ask About Intersex Birth Certificates](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/05/three-questions-you-should-ask-about-intersex-birth-certificates/) - New York State issued the nation’s first intersex birth certificate last week. NBC News reported on it here. I encourage you to read the report on 55-year-old Sara Kelly Keenan who got the state to change the sex on the birth certificate to the non-binary term. Intersex is a current term used to refer to
- [Feel Like Christian Men Are Not Stepping Up In Marriage? Here’s A Big Reason Why](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/07/feel-like-christian-men-are-not-stepping-up-in-marriage-heres-a-big-reason-why/) - I find it a helpful practice as a pastor to read through some recommended book on engagement or marriage with each couple I am counseling for marriage. This exercise, along with discussion about the couple’s particular issues, provides perspective for them about what life together will really be like. So, over time I have built
- [Should Girls Lift Weights? The Bible Tells Us](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/10/should-girls-lift-weights-the-bible-tells-us/) - Today, another “Scenic Overlook.” Again, I am using historical and archeological study to try to imagine what a particular Bible story really might have been like. The game is to try and guess which Biblical character is being described before you get to the end and find out. Can you guess? He
- [Three Pastors Walk Into a Restaurant...](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/19/three-pastors-walk-into-a-restaurant/) - I know this sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it isn’t. At least I hope not. Rather it was a moment of clarification for the pastors involved when it happened last week. The three of us are there for lunch, to begin the year hearing about each other’s churches and to pray for each
- [What the Woman Did to Him](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/21/what-the-woman-did-to-him/) - (Another Scenic Overlook from enGendered, showing the power of womanliness...) It had been a long time. A long time of dusty desert trails and fearful sprints from danger. He was tired. Tired of running. Tired of not having a home. Most of all, he was tired of maintaining a vision for something that had about
- [National Geographic Gender Minimizing Masquerading as Science](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/25/national-geographic-gender-minimizing-masquerading-as-science/) - Today we have a guest to AffirmingGender.com, Nicholas Black, Education & Resources Director of Harvest USA. Nick gives us a very thoughtful and helpful analysis of one of the articles in the recent National Geographic issue on gender. Here’s Nick… Ever since I was a kid I have been a long-time reader of the
- [Are Single Persons Second-Class?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/27/are-single-persons-second-class/) - One of reasons some scholars argue that the Apostle Paul did not write Ephesians is that the New Testament letter puts forth a vastly different view of marriage than 1Corinthians. I think that this basis for questioning the letter’s stated authorship is a big bowl of baloney with whipped cream on top. The Paul-didn’t-write-Ephesians theory
- [In the Old Testament, are women inferior to men?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/29/in-the-old-testament-are-women-are-inferior-to-men/) - So my wife teaches online high school and her curriculum includes going over the books of Leviticus and Numbers. Each year she tries to make the point that the Old Testament (OT) understands women as equally made in God’s image. And each year she gets some essays back saying that in the Old Testament women are
- [The New Bride and the General](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/19/the-new-bride-and-the-general/) - Another Scenic Overlook from enGendered, from a story given to help us feel the asymmetry of origin. Can you Bible readers guess who they are before the end? She was from the high country and she was a prize. Many had secretly desired her, but didn’t dare go beyond that. They would need to
- [Is this one I am dating “the one”?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/01/is-this-one-i-am-dating-the-one/) - If you are dating and the relationship has persisted for a while, you reach a point of asking, “Is this the one? Should we be together? Should we go for it, that momentous move called marriage?" It is exciting and dizzy and, yes, scary. Is this the one? Here’s how to tell. The Bible
- [Why Didn’t She Preach Instead?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/08/why-didnt-she-preach-instead/) - Today, another Scenic Overlook on how gender works in the Bible. Can you Bible readers guess who the characters are by the end? He had never felt so energized. At last, a way of understanding so many of those Bible verses he had memorized as a kid. It had happened a year ago. That moment
- [Did the Old Testament Law Force a Girl to Marry Her Rapist?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/12/did-the-old-testament-law-force-a-girl-to-marry-her-rapist/) - Sally, a young woman, shifted nervously as she confessed to my wife, Mary K., who was discipling her, her scary question about the Bible. It was about Deuteronomy, chapter 22. Vv28-29 seem to describe a shotgun wedding: 28 "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her,
- [Defining a New Humanity, Whether Intersexed Folks Want it Or Not](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/17/defining-a-new-way-of-thought-whether-intersexed-folks-want-it-or-not/) - After the recent decision of New York State to create a third category of birth certificate, which I wrote a about in the post, "3 Questions to Ask About Intersex Birth Certificates," World Magazine asked me a reasonable question: If “a birth certificate is an historical record of the facts as they existed at the
- [Ancient Equality](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/19/ancient-equality/) - Another Biblical Scenic Overlook from enGendered. Can you guess who they are before the end? They were angry. These sisters were women with a mission, and no one—certainly no man, they were part of the problem—was going to stop them. When they reached the guards, men whose job it was to kill on
- [To the Truest Woman I Know](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/05/to-the-truest-woman-i-know/) - Eyes that see all that I can be Hair that flows down to my need Ears that find the faintest cry of mine Hands that bind me when I bleed Your love reminds me of one that I dream of Free flowing grace from above I can see through your eyes perfect care undisguised
- [Didn’t Jesus Understand Hair Dye?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/12/didnt-jesus-understand-hair-dye/) - Everyone seems to agree that Jesus Christ’s most sublime, wonderful teaching is found in the Sermon on the Mount. But the part about not swearing oaths does not get much attention. According to Matthew 5, Jesus said, “Do not even swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.” Well, you
- [Should You Take your Children to See Disney’s New Beauty and the Beast?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/17/should-you-take-your-children-to-see-disneys-new-beauty-and-the-beast/) - A mom asked me this question because a debate broke out in her church group about the new movie opening today. Director Bill Condon revealed that the live-action reboot would end with a “nice, exclusively gay moment.” Moms who have been eagerly anticipating the release of this film prior to learning about the homosexual content
- [My Transgender Wakeup Moment](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/22/my-transgender-wakeup-moment/) - Have you ever looked up and suddenly wondered, how on earth did I get to where I am at this moment? How has it happened that I am doing what I am doing right now? I had that moment on a high school stage. It all started with Liz. Liz was a whirlwind
- [Public Service Announcement: Explaining the letters: LGBTQQCIAAPPP](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/24/public-service-announcement-explaining-the-letters-lgbtqqciaappp/) - For those who feel behind, I thought it helpful to explain the letters of our now LGBTQQCIAAPPP culture. I will not stoop to jokes about deli sandwiches or Campbell’s soup competitions, but just give you straight definitions...well, reasonably straight. As straight as one can be on the subject. So if you have been afraid to
- [Beyond Zebra--Explaining LGBTQQCIAAPPP, Part II](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/26/beyond-zebra-explaining-lgbtqqciaappp-part-ii/) - You may feel confused or like you cannot keep up. There is a reason for that. In the last post, I started to explain the letters in the inevitable proliferation of categories when God’s image categories of man and woman in relationship are rejected. We got through C. Let’s start out easy with perhaps the
- [Gender Lack in La La Land](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/14/gender-lack-in-la-la-land/) - The mesmerizing movie, La La Land, which came out at the end of last year and went on to win many awards in the last few months, tells a story that often happens. A young girl moves to Los Angeles or New York to make it, begins sleeping with a musician, and then has her
- [Daring to Ask, is Trans-Surgery the Answer? (Review of Paper Genders)](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/16/daring-to-ask-is-trans-surgery-the-answer-review-of-paper-genders/) - Like to know more about transgenderism? Even the not-pretty parts? AffirmingGender would like to showcase an important book for our time. It is honest. It is knowledgeable. It scores some thought-provoking points. It is called Paper Genders (2011), by Walt Heyer. Mr. Heyer does not minimize the seriousness of gender dysphoria, the experience of
- [Why are there no Women Priests in the Old Testament?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/19/why-are-there-no-women-priests-in-the-old-testament/) - The Hebrew Scriptures show us three great venues of covenant community leadership. When things got going, leadership resolved into three offices, authoritative ministers to shepherd, supply and save His people: Prophet, King and Priest. One of the glaring asymmetries between guys and gals in the Old Testament is how God called only men to the
- [Speaking of Gender without Ignoring Our Complexities: Reply to Claire Smith in The Gospel Coalition review, Part I](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/28/speaking-of-gender-without-ignoring-our-complexities-reply-to-claire-smith-in-the-gospel-coalition-review-part-i/) - The book, enGendered has something in it to offend just about everyone, so it is a wonder that some people actually like it. While surprised by how well the book has been received, and that in some unlikely corners, the questions it has raised in others were more of what I expected. I am happy
- [In Every Phase of a Woman’s Life, Jesus Meets Her: A Mother’s Day Sermon](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/14/in-every-phase-of-a-womans-life-jesus-meets-her-a-mothers-day-sermon/) - A Lover or A Mother or What? Especially for a woman, what she does, and so who she is, can change radically from one phase of life to the next. A woman in different phases of life has different needs. Proverbs 31, the Old Testament chapter, describes the “virtuous wife” as a super-woman who seems
- [Jesus Loved Women](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/21/jesus-loved-women/) - It is fun to see the ways Jesus loved women, emphasizing their equality, all the while upholding the asymmetry between the genders. It makes me want to honor women likewise, as He did. Read Matthew12:46-50 closely: While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to
- [Soul Mates or Maturing Souls?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/24/soul-mates-or-maturing-souls/) - I officiated a wonderful wedding last week. There was talk, as there always is, of whether these two would be right for each other. I told the guests why I was there and why I was confident to pronounce them “husband and wife.” Many people today feel like two people should get married if
- [Ever Since I Can Remember, I Have Had These Attractions](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/02/ever-since-i-can-remember-i-have-had-these-attractions/) - I have a confession to make about myself, and I suppose it is appropriate to disclose it on this website. From the time when I was very young, as young as one can be and have desires like this I guess, I have had certain desires that I was ashamed of. I got the
- [Send the Stutterer to Teach](https://affirminggender.com/2017/06/09/send-the-stutterer-to-teach/) - Ever notice how God delights in turning someone’s weakness into a strength? So God takes a man who cannot speak well, who was “slow of speech and of tongue” (Exodus 4:10), to speak some of the most important words ever spoken. These were captured in something called the Pentateuch. This God appointed the man, Moses,
- [Should Women Be Quiet?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/12/why-women-should-be-quiet/) - You might expect that the funny Greek word that means meekness, πραῢς, (pronounced something like pra-oose’), would appear a lot in the New Testament, since it sounds like such a Christian virtue. Not so. The word only appears four times in the New Testament, three of those times in the gospel of Matthew. (There is
- [Da Man Really Doesn’t Know](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/17/da-man-really-doesnt-know/) - I am amazed at how often these days people commit hook line and sinker to a theory of something though it lacks a central answer. They hold a great certainty that their thing is The Truth along with a faith that “Oh, some details will be worked out later.” Okay, but what if said details
- [When Girlfriends are No Longer Safe](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/28/when-girlfriends-are-no-longer-safe/) - A college freshman friend of mine recently found herself in a sad plight, now sadly typical. Young women, transitioning from high school to college, often crave close relationship. If you are such a young woman, to find a girlfriend, with whom you really connect, feels like a gift from heaven. Because it is. A close
- [Exactly Backwards: Soul Mates, Part II](https://affirminggender.com/2017/05/26/exactly-backwards-soul-mates-part-ii/) - I was talking last time about how couples today often make the decision to marry based on a feeling of being soul mates. I thought similarly too, in my time, when I decided to marry my wife: that this is what will make our marriage last. But we are getting things exactly backwards. The story
- [Does Same Sex Attraction Run in the Family?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/26/does-same-sex-attraction-run-in-the-family/) - In a recent counseling meeting, a man with same sex attraction (SSA) was telling me about his relationship with his father. As an aside, he mentioned the time he discovered, to his surprise, that his father had experienced SSA at one point as well. I have heard this before, but it is usually a hard
- [Gender Comes in Specialties ](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/23/gender-comes-in-specialties/) - To help explain how gender operates, I offer a few excerpts from enGendered, chapter 12: Specialties are things we all might do sometimes, but the specialist focuses on especially doing them. We may do many things for each other that are the same, but the gender magic happens when we lean into the asymmetries.
- [What’s the Point of this Ministry? (The Who What Why of AffirmingGender)](https://affirminggender.com/2017/04/21/whats-the-point-of-this-ministry-the-who-what-why-of-affirminggender/) - If you have been reading these posts for a little while, or have had contact with this website through a talk or article, you might be wondering, "Why is he doing this?" Perhaps then you would be served by a statement of purpose, to clarify what AffirmingGender is doing. (In fact, I would be helped
- [The Tragedy Deepens](https://affirminggender.com/2017/03/15/the-tragedy-deepens/) - The percentage of people experiencing inner alienation is making a massive climb before our very eyes. Far more children than ever before, encouraged by parents and administrators, are feeling like they are trapped in the wrong body. Is anybody seeing what this rapid rise implies?
- [What is wrong with the term, “Same-Sex Marriage”?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/05/what-is-wrong-with-the-term-same-sex-marriage/) - Words Matter. We need to understand what happens when we elect to refer to two men entering into an intimate legal union as “Same-sex Marriage.” Of course, people need to be able to understand each other. So common terminology is good, right? And doesn’t this seem like a value-neutral term? Like “heterosexual marriage?” You are
- [Congratulations to the Study Guide Contest winners!](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/02/congratulations-to-the-study-guide-contest-winners/) - We’ll be contacting you winners for your mailing address. I am a little concerned though. The first ten subscribers came in within the first ten hours of the New Years Midnight launch. Shouldn't you guys be sleeping more instead of being on social media in those hours? I mean, really. Maybe you should go to
- [When to Answer “Yes” to a Transgendered Person](https://affirminggender.com/2017/02/15/when-to-answer-yes-to-a-transgendered-person/) - When a friend or loved one finally discloses to us the struggle that they have had with their gender, whether it be simply feelings of gender dysphoria or a revelation that they have had hormone treatments or are now considering surgery, it is an important moment. What should be our response if we want to
- [Does Jesus accept me, a lesbian, ‘Just as I am,’?](https://affirminggender.com/2017/01/17/does-jesus-accept-me-a-lesbian-just-as-i-am/) - (Excerpt from enGendered, and a story I tell a lot in speaking) If you have ever gone through a pastoral search in your church, you know it is a long, drawn out business. Protestant congregations looking for a leader form committees to examine pastor candidates for visible strengths and hidden weaknesses. They must pay

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- [Biblical Scenic Overlooks](https://affirminggender.com/category/biblical-scenic-overlooks/) - A context-sensitive, historically-informed, re-telling of a Bible passage showcasing the operation of gender, a hopefully inspirational vista of the gift in action.
- [Trinitarian Love](https://affirminggender.com/category/trinitarian-love/) - Guidance on our relationships surmised from the interaction and intimacy of the Persons of the Triune God within Themself, from the economic to the immanent, and how our thus-guided relationships help us understand God.
- [Trinity & Gender](https://affirminggender.com/category/trinitarian-love/trinitarian-gender/) - Guidance on our genders surmised from the interaction and intimacy of the Persons of the Triune God within Themself, from the economic to the immanent, and how our thus-guided genders help us to understand God.
- [Gender Matters in Relationship](https://affirminggender.com/category/trinitarian-love/gender-matters-in-relationship/) - How the gift comes into play
- [Body](https://affirminggender.com/category/body/) - The physical platform and expression of our gender.
- [Maleness-Femaleness](https://affirminggender.com/category/body/maleness-femaleness/) - Secondary sexual traits and how they function in us.
- [Equality](https://affirminggender.com/category/equality/) - Both genders equally in the Image of God
- [Monogendered Relations](https://affirminggender.com/category/monogendered-relationships/) - The features of romantic involvement leaving one of the genders out.
- [Asymmetries of Gender](https://affirminggender.com/category/asymmetries-of-gender/) - The grand distinctions of how men and women love each other differently.
- [Asymmetry of Origin](https://affirminggender.com/category/asymmetries-of-gender/asymmetry-of-origin/) - The first couple was made differently, resulting in an asymmetry of giving rest and making secure. A man is a man in conquering a woman’s fears. A woman is a woman in being home to him.
- [Asymmetry of Order](https://affirminggender.com/category/asymmetries-of-gender/asymmetry-of-order/) - The first couple were made in a different order, resulting in an asymmetry of authority and promotion. She gives place to him to take charge for her benefit.
- [Asymmetry of Intent](https://affirminggender.com/category/asymmetries-of-gender/asymmetry-of-intent/) - Relationships are not about themselves, but God arranges them to help bring His Kingdom. The first woman and man were made for different purposes, but both for this mission, resulting in an asymmetry of god-bound leading and divine empowerment.
- [True Woman/Real Man](https://affirminggender.com/category/asymmetries-of-gender/a-true-woman-a-real-man/) - The deep, Biblical definition of gender difference.
- [Specialties of Gender](https://affirminggender.com/category/asymmetries-of-gender/specialties-of-gender/) - Gender’s call is to specialize, not monopolize. While there is overlap in what we do for one another, leaning into masculine and feminine distinction advances the relationship.
- [Culture & Gender](https://affirminggender.com/category/culture-and-gender/) - The interaction of gender with varying cultures, which are the clothes of gender.
- [Intergendered Intimacy](https://affirminggender.com/category/intergendered-intimacy/) - Gender is a gift given to foster intimacy in relationship. Intergendered relationship build intimacy in sometimes counterintuitive ways.
- [Immense Invitation](https://affirminggender.com/category/trinitarian-love/immense-invitation/) - The breath-taking summons of God into Their love.
- [Transgenderism](https://affirminggender.com/category/body/transgenderism/) - How a Theology of Gender helps us understand the movement to identify as the opposite gender.
- [Gender Dysphoria](https://affirminggender.com/category/body/transgenderism/gender-dysphoria/) - Christ’s answer for those who are distressed about their gender.
- [Intersex](https://affirminggender.com/category/body/intersex/) - The mercifully rare condition of being born with ambiguous sex. Responding to this condition, which may be caused by chromosomal error, hormonal insensitivity, or enzyme deficiency, requires wisdom and compassion.
- [Biblical Exegesis](https://affirminggender.com/category/biblical-exegesis/) - These posts involve looking more closely at a Biblical passage to understand its meaning
- [Big Picture](https://affirminggender.com/category/a-big-picture/) - Posts that get at an overview of a theology of gender.
- [Announcements](https://affirminggender.com/category/announcements/) - Updates on the Affirming Gender Ministry
- [Political Implications](https://affirminggender.com/category/culture-and-gender/legal-implications/) - This is not a political site. But whereas government is one of the great engines of culture, and whereas politics is interacting with gender so intensely, there are times our commentary must touch upon the laws of the land. This category contains those times.
- [Criticisms of enGendered](https://affirminggender.com/category/engendered-criticism/) - Most of the reviews of enGendered are complimentary–you can read about them on the book page of this site. But some are critical or issue challenges. This is a good thing if the reviewers are thoughtful, because it means that people are engaging the critical issue of gender. I always make the request to respond to the good pieces (ones I am aware of) in the venue of the review. If denied, I respond here.
- [Movie Reviews](https://affirminggender.com/category/culture-and-gender/moviereviews/) - Observations on films through the lens of gender.
- [Dating with Discernment](https://affirminggender.com/category/dating-with-discernment/) - Following the 2021 book, further posts about the way to start a relationship that makes for a lasting marriage to follow.
- [Scientific Inquiry](https://affirminggender.com/category/culture-and-gender/scientific-inquiry/)
- [Intergendered Fruitfulness](https://affirminggender.com/category/intergendered-fruitfulness/) - Fruitfulness proceeding from intimacy with the other.
- [Sermons](https://affirminggender.com/category/sermons-on-gender/) - Sermons given over the past 20 years, from five different series on related subjects, doing exposition and application of passages which show the Biblical principles of gender.
- [The Marriage Files](https://affirminggender.com/category/sermons-on-gender/the-marriage-files/) - The wonders and frustrations of intergendered unions–How marriage works and how to make it work.
- [Gender Matters](https://affirminggender.com/category/sermons-on-gender/gendermatters/) - How does gender matter for our lives? These messages cast the vision for the beauty of the gift.
- [Intimacy for Ownership](https://affirminggender.com/category/sermons-on-gender/intimacyforownership/) - Covenant lovemaking, the gift for intergendered unions, has great and glorious purpose. These messages explicate and celebrate correct use of physical intimacy.
- [Transformed](https://affirminggender.com/category/sermons-on-gender/transformed/) - Understanding transgenderism and the experience of the gender troubled.
- [Discerning Dating](https://affirminggender.com/category/sermons-on-gender/discerning-dating/)
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- [#poppingup](https://affirminggender.com/tag/poppingup/)
- [The Equality Act](https://affirminggender.com/tag/the-equality-act/)
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