Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Overview
By Preston Sprinkle, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender. I’ve written several blog posts on this topic over the past several weeks. For your convenience, I compiled all the links to the series along with short summaries here in one blog post for easier reference. As I continue to add more […]
Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 6—What about Intersex?
This is part 6 in an ongoing series on gender by Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Click here to see the first post. Last March, I engaged in a dialogue with Justin Lee about faith, sexuality, and gender in front of about 900 people. There was a lengthy Q & A at the end of the talk and all […]
Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 5—Do we have a sexed soul?
This is part 5 in an ongoing series on gender by Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Click here to see the first post. What if someone has a female body but a male soul? Are they a man or a woman? I’m going to wrestle with these questions below. But if you’re just now jumping into this blog […]
The Broken Cistern of Gender Dysphoria: One Pastor’s Story
Benjamin Schulke is a bi-vocational pastor from West Michigan. He received his M.Div at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, and B.S in Intercultural Studies from Cornerstone University. He is married to his beautiful wife Lauren, both whom love to serve their community through hospitality and coffee! “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken […]
Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 4—Brain Sex Theory
This is part 4 in an ongoing series on gender by Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Click here to see the first post. I recently took a test to see whether I had a male or female brain.[i] The test consisted of 30 different questions with multiple choice answers, such as: What was the last thing that made […]
Sex, Gender, and Transgender Experiences: Part 3—Gender Identity
This is part 3 in an ongoing series on gender by Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Click here to see the first post. In my previous post, I wrestled with the first two of the following three concepts: To repeat, the existence non-intersex humans as male and female is one of the only widely accepted facts across […]
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 […]
Free Pastoral Paper: What Does Discipleship Look like for Transgender People?
Guidance for Churches on Baptism, Membership, Service, Leadership, and Communion for Transgender People A New Pastoral Paper by Robert S. Smith Jesus’s call to “make disciples of all nations” (Matt. 28:19) necessarily involves his followers in taking the gospel to the transgender community. Because the gospel is God’s power to save and […]