Why I Don’t Use the Term “Transgenderism”
By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender Understanding the importance of language is crucial in the LGBTQ conversation, and the transgender conversation in particular. I’m not just talking about the lexical definition of words. That’s certainly needed. But I’m talking about how words can give off a certain air, […]
The End of Gender: A Review of Deborah Soh’s Recent Book
By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender It just so happened that Deborah Soh’s book, The End of Gender, came out just a weeks after Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage (which I recently reviewed), and that both Deborah and Abigail appeared on nearly back to back episodes of Joe Rogan’s […]
Trans* Teenagers and Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage
By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage has created quite a stir. When it was first released in June 2020, Amazon refused to allow the publisher to run sponsored advertisements of the book. After Joe Rogan interviewed Shrier on his podcast, some Spotify employees demanded […]
Free Webinars with Preston Sprinkle
I’m excited to invite you to two different online events we’re putting on! Grace/Truth Small Group Study The first one is a 5-week virtual group study through Grace/Truth 1.0, which I will be leading. The first 1-hour gathering will begin on Tuesday, May 19th at 5pm PST (8pm EST), and we’ll gather again […]
Podcasts on Sexuality and Gender
By Preston Sprinkle, President of The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender As some of you know, I run a podcast called “Theology in the Raw,” which you can find on most podcast outlets (Google Play, iTunes, Spotify, etc.). You can also find them right here on our Resources page. I typically interview people on […]
A Response to the Critics of My CT Article on Polyamory
By Preston Sprinkle, President of The Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. My friend Branson Parler and I wrote an article on polyamory for Christianity Today several months ago, and it’s recently elicited several critiques (see HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE for starters). The article was titled: “Polyamory: Pastors’ Next Sexual Frontier.” And as […]
Free Pastoral Paper: The Bible, Polyamory, and Monogamy
The Bible, Polyamory, and Monogamy A New Pastoral Paper by Dr. Branson Parler I often get asked, “What’s the next topic we’ll face in the sexuality conversation?” My quick answer is: “Polyamory, though sex with robots is a close second.” This may sound far fetched, but both of these—polyamory in particular—are live questions people […]
Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 2—Biological Sex and Gender Role
This is part 2 in an ongoing series on gender by Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Click here to see the first post. What is gender, and how is it related to sex? In my previous post, we saw that the definition of biological sex is widely agreed upon, the same is not true of […]
Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 1—Biological Sex
I’m going to do two things that I thought I’d never do: blog about gender and allow for comments. Don’t get me wrong. I love getting feedback, especially critical feedback. But as you might know, the comment section on blogs can be a dumping ground for dehumanizing rhetoric, and the topic of gender seems to […]
The Center at the Q Conference
Last week, the Lord provided a fantastic opportunity for The Center to address the LGBTQ conversation at the annual Q Conference in Nashville. The Q Conference is sort of like a Christian version of the TED talks, where some of the most influential Christian leaders present their big ideas in 9 or 18 minutes […]