What Scripture teaches about human sexuality, gender identity, and sexual ethics.
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12059 This is a question that provokes strong reactions on all sides, and it is one that more and more Christians are facing as gay weddings becomes legally and culturally established across the West. The answer requires holding together two things that the culture insists are contradictory: genuine love for people who identify as…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12058 Cohabitation has become so normalised in Western culture that many people, including many professing Christians, no longer see it as a moral issue at all. The reasoning typically runs along practical lines: it makes financial sense, it lets you test compatibility before committing, and it is what everyone does. The church needs to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12027 The claim that gender is a social construct, independent of biology and existing on a spectrum, has moved from academic gender theory into mainstream cultural assumption with remarkable speed. It is now treated in many Western contexts as established fact, with those who question it labelled as bigoted or scientifically illiterate. But is…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 12030 The transgender movement did not appear from nowhere. It has deep philosophical roots stretching back centuries, and understanding those roots is essential for any Christian who wants to engage the culture with both truth and compassion. Ideas have consequences, and the ideas behind the modern gender revolution can be traced through a surprisingly…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12029 The transgender movement did not emerge from nowhere. It has intellectual roots, ideological commitments, and a traceable history that stretches back further than most people realise. Understanding where the movement came from is not an exercise in conspiracy thinking. It is essential for the church to engage the ideas critically rather than simply…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06071 This question is one of the more practically pressing ones in Christian sexual ethics, and it is one Scripture does not answer directly. The word masturbation does not appear in the Bible. Any honest answer has to begin there, because the temptation — in both directions — is to pretend more certainty than…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 06072 This is one of those pastoral questions where a great deal of unnecessary guilt and confusion has accumulated because the distinction between two very different things has been blurred. Many sincere Christians live under a burden of condemnation about their own normal human responses, whilst the genuinely problematic territory of lust goes unaddressed…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5002 Few topics generate more heat in our current cultural moment than questions of sexuality and gender. Yet these are not merely contemporary concerns; they go to the very heart of what it means to be human. Scripture speaks clearly and beautifully about how God designed us as sexual beings, and understanding this design…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5003 One of the most pressing questions of our age concerns the relationship between biological sex and personal identity. Is it possible for someone to be “born in the wrong body”? Can a person’s inner sense of being male or female differ from their physical reality? These questions would have been incomprehensible to previous…