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 […]
Less Than Affirming: Perspectives Beyond the Gender Affirmative-only Model of Care for Trans* and Gender Dysphoric People
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]