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The Church Complicit: Review of Jesus & Gender by Fitzpatrick & Schumacher

The Church Complicit: Review of Jesus & Gender by Fitzpatrick & Schumacher

By Sam A. Andreades December 2, 2022 December 12, 2022 0

While it has its good points, this book is typical of the church’s and the culture’s current minimization of gender in relationship.

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Why You Need the Pactum Salutis in Your Life

Why You Need the Pactum Salutis in Your Life

By Sam A. Andreades November 11, 2022 November 10, 2022 0

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.

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The Fallen Gaze

The Fallen Gaze

By Sam A. Andreades September 30, 2022 November 10, 2022 0

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.

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She was Made from Him

She was Made from Him

By Sam A. Andreades September 23, 2022 September 24, 2022 2

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.

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How We Wished It Had Gone

How We Wished It Had Gone

By Sam A. Andreades July 29, 2022 July 28, 2022 2

A woman’s fateful walk to the center of the grove.

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Is Gender in Every Passage of the Bible?

Is Gender in Every Passage of the Bible?

By Sam A. Andreades March 4, 2022 March 4, 2022 0

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.

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Christmas in the Book of Revelation I: The Paradigm of Gender

Christmas in the Book of Revelation I: The Paradigm of Gender

By Sam A. Andreades December 23, 2021 December 29, 2021 0

John’s vision of Christmas in Ch. 12 of Revelation gives us how history unfolds, through the archetypes of gender.

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Finding a Firstborn (new book excerpt)

Finding a Firstborn (new book excerpt)

By Sam A. Andreades September 23, 2021 September 23, 2021 1

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.

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He Called Them Two By Two

He Called Them Two By Two

By Sam A. Andreades December 13, 2018 December 7, 2018 0

Recent headlines proclaim medical breakthroughs which will enable lesbian couples to bear children together. The headlines make for a sensational news cycle, but are misleading in claiming that the sexually dimorphic (that is, needing both male and female) reproductive process has been circumvented.

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Of the Same Substance as Adam

Of the Same Substance as Adam

By Sam A. Andreades May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 0

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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