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Be Strong and Be a Man

Be Strong and Be a Man

By Sam A. Andreades January 27, 2023 January 26, 2023 0

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?

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Gender Disintegration: From the Academy to Statistics

Gender Disintegration: From the Academy to Statistics

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

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

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A Hobby Lobby Conversion

A Hobby Lobby Conversion

By Mary K. Andreades January 13, 2023 January 14, 2023 1

A mother bravely faces an inner conflict as she prepares for her daughter’s wedding. What does the struggle reveal?

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Listening to Stories From the Other Side

Listening to Stories From the Other Side

By Sam A. Andreades January 6, 2023 January 5, 2023 0

The 2018 book, Trans Life Survivors, shows the heavily populated other side of trans-surgery through collected email exchanges.

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A Fundamental of Being Human

A Fundamental of Being Human

By Sam A. Andreades December 30, 2022 December 29, 2022 2

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.

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The Christmas Story: Marriage By Mission

The Christmas Story: Marriage By Mission

By Sam A. Andreades December 23, 2022 December 22, 2022 2

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?

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The Really Upsetting Thing about the Respect for Marriage Act

The Really Upsetting Thing about the Respect for Marriage Act

By Sam A. Andreades December 16, 2022 December 15, 2022 4

This week, with great celebration, President Biden signed the “Respect for Marriage” Act, seeking to normalize monogendered unions. That is not the scary part.

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Better For Your Daughters to Know Why You Submit

Better For Your Daughters to Know Why You Submit

By Sam A. Andreades December 9, 2022 January 2, 2023 0

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.

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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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Respect For Marriage: Is SSA as Unchanging as Ethnicity?

Respect For Marriage: Is SSA as Unchanging as Ethnicity?

By Sam A. Andreades November 18, 2022 December 12, 2022 1

The new act in Congress to codify monogendered marriage presupposes the immutability of sexual desire, like ethnicity. But research shows it is not so.

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

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

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

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

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

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