Looking Back to the Law
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.
Do Baby Girls Have More Cooties?
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?”
A Happy Day for Gay Guys and Christians
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…
The Two Principles Always Active in Gender
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.
Good Preaching
I spend a lot of time yearning for people to get the goodness of the Bible’s teaching about gender. I think, “If they could see how this works in the lives of the counter-cultural folks living it out, they would see its beauty. The lights would go on.” So I am always on the lookout for preachers or teachers who …
Bahram Gur Will Ride Again
President Trump this week declared official policy of the USA to be only two genders. But the Persian tale of Bahram Gur & Azadeh shows this to be an old issue.
Richard Hays, of Widening Mercy, Goes Out As He Lived
A New Testament Professor, known for his work on ethics and echoes, passes, sparking memories of arguments still relevant in his office, long, long ago.
Harem-Taking Runs Deep in Fallen Man
The Bible’s early narrative may demonstrate a gendered fundamental of the fall of Man: the desire to depart from the goodness of marriage.
The Dating Hero, The Real St. Nicholas
I found myself watching a movie called “Red One.” It cast Santa Claus as—guess what?—a super-hero. The original St. Nicholas of Myra was instead a dating hero.
An Ancient Tradition for a Modern Problem
The Modern Problem is understanding gender. The Ancient Tradition is vestigia Trinitatis. That Latin term, meaning “traces of the Trinity,” looks through the doctrine of the Trinity to see how that truth about God illumines the way the world is. The simple reasoning is, if this is the way God is, it would likely show up in how He made …