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Clear Answers on the Horizon

Clear Answers on the Horizon

By Sam A. Andreades April 18, 2025 April 23, 2025 0

People have many questions on which they seek clarity. The Panel Q&A for EthicsCon 2025 in Allentown gives clarion answers to pressing questions.

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What Married Life is About

What Married Life is About

By Sam A. Andreades April 11, 2025 May 1, 2025 4

The day I began to realize how pervasive the cultural disdain for bearing and raising children had become in the American church.

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The Adulterer, Karl Barth

The Adulterer, Karl Barth

By Sam A. Andreades April 4, 2025 April 4, 2025 0

On this infamous anniversary, we must ask, how can someone speak good when doing evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

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Women Rejecting Marriage? Offer A Better Vision

Women Rejecting Marriage? Offer A Better Vision

By Sam A. Andreades March 28, 2025 March 27, 2025 0

The Wall Street Journal heralded, “American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage.” The reasons boil down to the dissolution of gender. Can we offer a better vision?

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The Name We Should All Know

The Name We Should All Know

By Sam A. Andreades March 21, 2025 March 20, 2025 2

With honorary degrees from 11 universities, her works translated into 27 languages, she “has changed the way we think about sex, sexuality, gender…”

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Three Big Things Just Happened

Three Big Things Just Happened

By Sam A. Andreades March 14, 2025 March 14, 2025 5

A congressional bill and a robust Journal of Sexual Medicine study question America’s way of addressing gender dysphoria.

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Looking Back to the Law

Looking Back to the Law

By Sam A. Andreades March 7, 2025 March 6, 2025 4

Contrary to the idea of a progression, the apostle’s method of “looking back to the law” makes gender principles feel enduring and so needing our heeding.

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Do Baby Girls Have More Cooties?

Do Baby Girls Have More Cooties?

By Mary K. Andreades February 28, 2025 February 27, 2025 2

After my daughter’s birth, I asked a Hasidic mother of 7, “Why is a mother is ritually unclean for 1 week after she bears a son, but 2 weeks for a daughter?”

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A Happy Day for Gay Guys and Christians

A Happy Day for Gay Guys and Christians

By Sam A. Andreades February 21, 2025 February 20, 2025 1

On the day the Bellevue Hospital Inpatient AIDS Service closed because there were no longer the patients to sustain it, I called up the Gay City News editor…

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The Two Principles Always Active in Gender

The Two Principles Always Active in Gender

By Sam A. Andreades February 7, 2025 February 6, 2025 0

Just as we see them side by side in the Bible, they need to be side by side in our lives, to move forward in love for Valentine’s Day.

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Resources on Transgenderism

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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Read, think, and join the conversation!

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