Barbie, Augustine, and the Beauty We Were Made For
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Last week, I donned my best pink t-shirt[1] and went with six similarly bedecked friends to watch Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie. That night when I got home, I set the movie’s best original song[2] playing on […]
Curiously Fluid Data on Sexual Fluidity
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. Last month, I wrote a blog post discussing the findings in a recent study on sexual orientation change. (With apologies for spoiling the surprise: I concluded that the study was methodologically dubious, and that orientation change may […]
On Scandalous Housing Arrangements
By Gregory Coles. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center and is the author of Single, Gay, Christian and No Longer Strangers. I am an unmarried man. I live with an unmarried woman. It’s just the two of us in the house, alone and unchaperoned. Yet somehow—though this may shock you […]
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 […]
What the Church Gets Wrong About Singleness and Marriage
By Preston Sprinkle. This article was originally posted at Relevant. Church can be a tough place for single people. Most Christians don’t realize it, unless they’re single, but if you step back and look at our Christian culture, you’ll see that we elevate marriage. In some cases, we idolize it. We see a beautiful girl […]
What Do We Actually Know about Sexual Orientation? Part 1
The short answer is: a lot less than we think we do. I often hear people use terms like gay, straight, or bisexual as if these categories are neatly defined. Or I’ll hear people say things like, since some people are born gay, then it’s wrong to say they shouldn’t be who they are. […]