A Mother’s Humble Prayer
By Melissa Russell. Melissa is a mom of three adult kids, an interviewee for the Parenting LGBTQ Kids video series, and a group facilitator for Helping Parents Love. We learned of our son’s gender dysphoria and his decision to begin transitioning on the same day we received my husband’s cancer diagnosis. From that day forward, we were […]
Did Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Relationships Exist in Biblical Times? A Response to Matthew Vines
Rainbow Flags and Symbolic Ambiguity
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. This is a blog post about rainbow flags and other LGBTQ+-related symbols. But it’ll take us a little while to get there. First, let’s talk about crude hand gestures. […]
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 […]
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 […]