#CelebrateGender | AffirmingGender

Audio podcasting comes to AffirmingGender

By Sam A. Andreades November 2, 2025 November 2, 2025 2

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.

Grudging or Celebrating? : Reply to Aimee Byrd, Part 1

By Sam A. Andreades March 1, 2017 June 23, 2020 6

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 reply. So now, to these …

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?

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.

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.

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.

Read, think, and join the conversation!

Sermons (19)
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- Gender Matters (7)
- Intimacy for Ownership (5)
- Transformed (1)
Big Picture (15)
Biblical Scenic Overlooks (12)
Equality (24)
Asymmetries of Gender (109)
- Asymmetry of Origin (19)
- Asymmetry of Order (33)
- Asymmetry of Intent (21)
- True Woman/Real Man (25)
- Specialties of Gender (11)
Intergendered Intimacy (33)
Intergendered Fruitfulness (7)
Monogendered Relations (46)
Body (99)
- Maleness-Femaleness (17)
- Transgenderism (77)
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- Intersex (7)
Dating with Discernment (18)
Culture & Gender (84)
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- Movie Reviews (11)
- Political Implications (16)
Trinitarian Love (42)
- Gender Matters in Relationship (15)
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Biblical Exegesis (64)
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