Is Gender Christian?
A friend from Costa Rica asks some searching questions about the church and gender: In what ways and to what extent do you consider that...
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CHRISTIANITY, THE ACADEMY, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Evangelicals, Elites, and Alternative Facts
Molly Worthen, a reputable scholar of American evangelicalism who teaches at the estimable University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill,...
Bathrooms, Identity, Rights, and Wisdom: Helping All Students in the Light of Trans* Issues
Two years ago, the Vancouver School Board (VSB) was asked to accommodate students with varying sexual identities. More and more...
Yes, It’s Out
InterVarsity Press has advised me that my new book, Partners in Christ: A Conservative Case for Egalitarianism, has been released....
On Forbearance and Listening
My wife once brought me up short, years ago, by suggesting that a man telling women to calm down when they wanted to express their pain...
Better Late than Never…
When I arrived at Regent College in 1998, I looked forward to a lot of good things. One of them was to move on from the debates of the...
Evangelical Women and Pastoral Ministry
For (too) many evangelicals, this title contains a contradiction, if not an outright scandal: Evangelical women are not supposed to...
C. S. Lewis and the Test of Coherence
In Miracles (the book that gets my vote as the best generally overlooked book by C. S. Lewis), Lewis makes a point about the plausibility...
Before You Oppose It…
Sen. Rob Portman is making news as the first Republican notable to come out for the legalization of homosexual marriage in the United...
Feminists for the Unborn: Speak Up
On the 25th anniversary of R. v. Morgentaler, some feminists are understandably worried that the rights of certain women—childbearing...
Basic Category Mistake, Madame Minister: “Legal” Doesn’t Mean “Good”&#
We don’t turn to our politicians for fine points of ethical reasoning. Politicians are supposed to be good at other things, such as...
Feminists for the Unborn: Speak Up
As Parliament has finally allowed itself to discuss who, or what, qualifies as a human being—however briefly, and to no effect—some...
Gender & Students at Evangelical Universities: What Needs to Be Said? Or Not Said?
I’m to lead a workshop at the annual meeting of the Association of Christians in Student Development at Taylor University in a couple of...
Stop the Presses: John Piper Thinks Christianity Is Masculine
If you’re connected with the great big family known as American evangelicalism, you might have heard of pastor and author John Piper’s...
Lecture on Homosexuality Now Available
Since, as you know, I try to avoid controversy as much as possible and simply repeat bromides and other crowd-pleasers all I can, I’m...
"Ring by Spring"? Giving Women Alternative Futures
Here in Upland, Indiana, I’ve been told by reliable people at Taylor University that many, many of their young women come to college with...
I Tim. 2:15ff., Gender, and "Just Obeying What Scripture Clearly Says"
In my book Finally Feminist I refer to I Timothy 2:15ff as the passage that finally clued me in to an important truth about Biblical...
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"Conversion Narratives" about Gender
Dr. Alan Johnson of Wheaton College has recently produced a new collection of essays on gender. This one is quite new: It offers the...
Time to Give Mark Driscoll a Sabbatical?
There’s a lot to like about what Mark Driscoll has done in his pastoral work at Mars Hill Church in Seattle. Sadly, however, there’s a...
A Better Way on Prostitution
Julia Beazley, of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, writes on a recent report that analyzes Sweden’s ten-year-old campaign to reduce...
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