Sexuality and Gender
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Why We’re Weird for Thinking That Tim Scott Is Weird
Tim Scott entered politics decades ago as a proud 30-year-old virgin. Campaigning at the height of 1990s evangelical “purity culture,”…
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Rites of Passage Can Help Boys Become Men
Twin crises afflict contemporary America: The Great Dechurching and The End of Men, as the titles of recent books label…
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When My Sermon Riled Our City
October 13, 2019, seemed like every other Sunday. And it was—until it wasn’t. My sermon that day on Genesis 1:27…
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What If the Christian Sexual Ethic Becomes a Feat…
Christianity’s 2,000-year-old sexual ethic is not normal in the contemporary West and hasn’t been for some time. The notion that…
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I’m an Evangelical Parent of Adult LGBTQ Children. Now What?
For evangelical parents who hold to the church’s long-standing doctrines on gender and sex, waking up to the reality of…
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What Believers Can and Can’t Affirm in Those Who Affirm Same-Sex Marriage
Maybe you believe that the Bible opposes same-sex sexual relationships. Where in the Bible would you begin to explain your…
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Conservative Methodists, Unite | Christianity Today
That was fast. In the first General Conference since the most conservative congregations disaffiliated, the United Methodist Church liberalized its…
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Gender Difference Is Real, but Too Complex to Spell Out All the Specifics
When asked to define time, Augustine remarked that he knew what it was until someone asked him to define it.…
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