Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 12027 Whether sex is a biological reality or a social construct has moved from academic seminars to primary schools in about two decades, which is remarkably fast for an idea that reverses something humanity has assumed for all of recorded history. It is now treated in many settings as established fact, with dissent marked…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 12026 Preferred pronouns have turned an ordinary part of speech into a test of allegiance, and believers are being asked to take that test at work, at university and increasingly in the family. It is a small word with a great deal loaded onto it, which is exactly why it is difficult. I want…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 11103 Gender dysphoria is a subject on which the church has managed to be both too loud and too silent, and the people caught in the middle of it are suffering. There are Christians who talk about it only as a culture war headline, and there are others who are so anxious about causing…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8003. Female angels are everywhere in our culture and almost nowhere in our Bibles, and that gap is worth examining rather than glossing over. Every angel who takes human form in Scripture and is described in any detail is described as a man. Every angel given a personal name, Michael and Gabriel, carries a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5002. The Bible treats human sexuality as one of God’s good gifts, given before sin ever entered the world, and that starting point changes everything. Our culture talks about sex constantly, yet rarely asks the one question that matters most: what did the Maker intend? If human sexuality is a divine design rather than…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2022. Masculine language for God runs through the whole Bible, “He,” “Him,” “Father,” “King,” and I am often asked why, given that God is spirit and not literally male, as I explained in my article on whether God has a gender. This question digs into the small word “He” specifically, the pronoun itself, rather…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2021. God’s gender is a live question in a culture busy renegotiating what gender even means, and I want to answer it carefully rather than reaching for the nearest slogan. Does God have a gender in any biological sense, or does He simply speak of Himself in masculine terms as an accommodation to human…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1099. Gender ideology is one of the most pastorally sensitive subjects I address, because behind every abstract question sits a real person, often someone genuinely struggling, sometimes a parent frightened for a child, sometimes a young person in real distress. I want to answer carefully and with compassion, because Scripture never lets truth and…