Next Gift of Gender Conference
I will be conducting a conference next Friday night-Saturday day (July 19-20) at Everett Assembly of God Church, sponsored by ReNewing Hope Ministries.
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 you also have benefited from this …
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 on the condition that I …
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 about ten years ago, the …
He Called Them Two By Two
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.
Pornography and the Ancient Counsel of Balaam
The ancient Balaam knew the only way to oppose Israel was to destroy her relationship with God. Therefore, he suggested a substitute love offensive. His counsel still destroys the people of God today.
An Existential and Miserable Hero
An attractive writer’s entertaining prose in the New York Times only thinly masks the harsh reality of his hopelessness. The stark confessions of our culture’s new kind of hero.
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?
Wounds From a Friend Can Be Trusted: Introducing Ryan Haines
A Christian’s story of how to engage with those with whom we disagree.
Teachers, Take Heart
The key members of our society now find themselves in a predicament. Can school teachers and home-schooling parents to address a new generation growing up in a gender minimizing culture?