Reintegrative Therapy and “Serious Misrepresentations”
Author and licensed psychologist Dr. Julia Sadusky recently published a short video explaining why she doesn’t do Reintegrative Therapy as a Catholic therapist. If you’re not familiar with Reintegrative Therapy, it’s a clinical approach which claims to bring about shifts in sexual orientation as a byproduct of trauma therapy. In their own words: “Reintegrative Therapy® is […]
Being and Becoming
By Sam Wan. Sam is a ministry worker in the space of sexuality and gender and a board member for several disability ministries. He loves researching in practical theology, reading poetry, looking at art, and podcasting at Conversations with Earl Grey and Espresso and Earl Grey. You do not have to be good.You do not have to […]
Rainbow Flags and Symbolic Ambiguity
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. This is a blog post about rainbow flags and other LGBTQ+-related symbols. But it’ll take us a little while to get there. First, let’s talk about crude hand gestures. […]
Pros and Cons of Coming Out
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. “Should I come out to the world as a celibate gay Christian?” I get this question a lot—and to tell you the truth, I’m pretty leery of answering it. […]
You Will Never Be Ready
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Every once in a while, I get invited to speak to a church or faith-based organization, only to have that invitation retracted later. Sometimes the cancellation happens for reasons I […]
The Before-and-After Testimony Problem
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Back in my teenage, evangelical-youth-group-attending days, part of me wished I had been a drug addict. I’m not saying I wanted to be a drug addict. Heavens no. But […]
The Heterosexuality of Tim Keller
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. A few days ago, I stumbled across this video of Tim Keller making the following statement about human sexuality: “If I was perfectly sanctified, I would have no ability […]
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts: Are They the Same? Part 1
This blog series is drawing from the research paper: “The Problems with Correlating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and Gender Identity Change Efforts,” available for free here. Written by Drs. Paul Eddy and Preston Sprinkle. It has become commonplace to correlate Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) with Gender Identity Change Efforts (GICE). But are they […]
Why I Wrote a Book on Transgender Identities
My book Embodied drops today, and I’m both nervous and excited to see how it’s received. The first question people ask me when I mention this book is, why did you write Embodied? My answer is given in the Preface to the book, which I’ve posted below in its entirety. PREFACE The idea for […]
Was Joseph Trans*? An Exercise in Gender Stereotypes
The following post is taking from my book Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say, chapters 5 and 6. The story of Joseph (Gen. 37-50) is regularly retold in Sunday schools and synagogues alike, but one interpretive possibility you might not have grown up with is—Joseph might have been […]