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Responding to Anti-Trans Legislation
This post was originally published as “My Trans Stepson is Not Broken. He is Wonderfully Made,” by the Mississippi Free Press, May 16, 2022. Over the past few months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have called gender-affirming… Continue reading
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The Cost of Silence
Katie Kelaidis, finally among Orthodox, broached the subject that it seems so many Orthodox commentators are delicately avoiding except in the most vague of terms: the justification of Russia’s war on the Ukraine as a defense against forced “gay parades.”… Continue reading
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“What About Rape?” Gender, Violence, and Policing
“They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace, peace’, when there is no peace.”[1] There has been a significant shift in the public conversation around policing in the last few weeks. Calls for dramatic reforms, defunding, and… Continue reading
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Unholy Trinity: Incel Ideology, Complementarian Theology, and Toxic Masculinity (Part II)
Following up on our discussion of toxic masculinity in our previous post here we want to analyze some parallels between evangelical complementarian theology and the rhetoric found in online misogynist groups. In studying complementarian teachings and reading through incel materials… Continue reading
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#MeToo and the Jesus Movement
The #MeTooMovement has opened up new interpretive possibilities within Christianity. It reminds us that, in the case of Scripture, meaning is not just in the text, ossified and waiting to be retrieved, but it is also, always something we inevitably… Continue reading
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Tracing the Same Lines: A Quasi-Evangelical Response to the Nashville Statement
From here it is a short step to denying the full humanity of women and anyone else deemed Other. This is the primary consequence of a binary theological anthropology born of a non-Trinitarian creation theology. Continue reading
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Alewives: Brewing Ale, Brewing Controversy
Some of what I have been reading recently has helped me reflect on the complex ways religious communities portray godliness and immorality when it comes to economic activity and gender. These reflections have come from a somewhat surprising source: the history of… Continue reading
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He Got It From His Mama? The Christian Case for Transgender Equality
Here is what I want to say to Christians for whom the fact that “transgender people are clearly happier and healthier and more fully alive when they are allowed to be transgender” is not a good enough reason to accept… Continue reading
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Between the Binary: Is “Effeminacy” Really an Issue in Evangelical Church Culture?
“They may be misplaced, forgotten, or misdirected, but in the heart of every man is a desperate desire for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.” – John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of… Continue reading
