Netflix’s “Pray Away”: Beware of False Dichotomies
By Pieter Valk. Pieter Valk is a licensed professional counselor, the director of EQUIP, and cofounder of the Nashville Family of Brothers , an ecumenically Christian brotherhood for men called to vocational singleness. Follow Pieter @pieterlvalk on all platforms. My pray-the-gay-away journey started at age 15. I came out to my parents, and a pastor referred […]
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 […]
Less Than Affirming: Perspectives Beyond the Gender Affirmative-only Model of Care for Trans* and Gender Dysphoric People
Family Planning for Eunuchs
By Gregory Coles. This blog post is adapted from an excerpt of Greg’s new book No Longer Strangers. Used with permission I am not, in the physiological sense of the word, a eunuch. And yet, based on the amount of sex I’m currently having and the number of biological offspring I expect to leave behind […]
The Gospel of Uniformity
By Gregory Coles. This blog post is adapted from an excerpt of Greg’s new book No Longer Strangers. Used with permission. I often hear the accusation that celibate gay Christians talk about our sexuality too much—or, perhaps, that we insist on talking about it at all when we ought to be silent and blend in. […]
The Gay Church-Hunter’s Paradox
By Gregory Coles. This blog post is adapted from an excerpt of Greg’s new book No Longer Strangers. Used with permission. How am I supposed to go church-hunting as an openly gay person living by a historic biblical sexual ethic? This isn’t one of those clever opening questions I plan to answer later […]
The Tavistock Controversy: A Follow-Up Report
By Dr. Paul R. Eddy and Dr. Preston Sprinkle. In September, we posted a piece on the controversy involving the Tavistock’s London-based Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the primary UK gender clinic serving gender-nonconforming children.[i] We noted that the controversy was gaining increased public attention due to a lawsuit filed against the GIDS. The claimants […]
Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say
Writing a book is hard work. Writing a book on a controversial topic is even harder. Writing a book on transgender identities—especially as someone who doesn’t identify as trans*—has been the most difficult writing task I’ve ever taken on. And on February 1st, the culmination of my journey, a book titled Embodied, will be released. […]
Marginalized Jesus
By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. We’re so familiar with the Christmas story that we hardly notice its scandal. But think about the scenario. Mary was found pregnant out of wedlock in a culture where such shameful deeds were intolerable, and her “Holy Ghost” story would only intensify the […]
Webinar for Parents with Gay Kids
Greetings! I’m very excited to announce our next webinar—“A Christian Perspective on Parenting Gay Children.” I know this is a huge need in the church right now, and parents with gay kids are eager to learn from others who have gone about it well. I have two special guests who will lead us […]