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 […]
The Tale of the Presumptive Lesbian
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a writer and member of the Center’s Collaborative Team. Be sure to check out his new book No Longer Strangers. This is a story about my straight friend Rachel. Why my straight friend, you ask? Why don’t I just call her my friend? Great question, Imaginary Reader. I’m […]
The One Humanizing Sexual Ethic
By Tony Scarcello. Tony is a pastor, speaker, and writer located in Springfield, Oregon. He regularly speaks at churches, camps, retreats, and conferences. Tony is also the host of the Regenerate Podcast, a podcast dedicated to having the critical conversations required to regenerate our faith. His book, Regenerate: Following Jesus After Deconstruction is available now. My […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]