It is great when my wife can join me for pastoral marriage counseling a couple. It is a journey for us as well, an exploration into unknown territory. It is hard to describe what happens, but I find that we take their problem into ourselves and contend about it. We sometimes get mad at each other. And we end up having the argument they need to have.
What is the terrible sin of “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit,” and why did Jesus say that it won’t be forgiven? This is what Bible-readers always want to know upon reading Matthew 12. And they spend hours talking about it. Some even wonder if they have committed this sin inadvertently and are therefore beyond Divine favor. The key to what is really going on is seeing that this is about the Trinitarian relationships.
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.
The break-up of the Beatles broke the heart of a generation. A lot of the blame at the time fell upon Yoko Ono. Why does the idea of a girl coming in and disturbing the male company have such powerful resonance with us?
A Time of Confusion about the Basics 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 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a landmark ruling recently that redefines the term “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include …
At the enGendered Conference at Peace Church two weeks ago, Rosaria Butterfield gave an insightful talk on “How we Got Here – Gender and Sexuality,” critiquing the attempt to build an identity on one’s sexual desires. In it, she referenced Michel Foucault’s influential 1976 work, The History of Sexuality, whence comes our popular phrase, “the will to power.” Most normal …
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 those I address who are …
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, which most of us aren’t.
When spoken, it wafts gently through the air. It rhymes soothingly with euphoria. It almost sounds peaceful. To those who experience it, it is anything but peaceful. Yet dysphoria has the advantage of being so clinical a term that ordinary people like us, who are not doctors and never use it in conversation, have no idea what it means. That …
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 craved stability, which Sam did …
