Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12010 Marriage is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary culture, and almost everyone has an opinion about what it is, what it should look like, and who gets to define it. The Christian answer to that question is straightforward: God defines marriage, because God created it. Before there was a state, a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11106 In a culture that often treats marriage as the expected norm and singleness as a problem to be solved, the Bible offers a surprisingly different perspective. Singleness is not a deficiency, not a waiting room, and not a lesser state of Christian existence. Scripture speaks of it with genuine honour and presents it…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 10107 For those who have enjoyed a loving marriage, or who long for one, the question of whether marriage continues in heaven is deeply personal. Jesus addressed this question directly when the Sadducees tried to trap Him with a hypothetical scenario. His answer is clear, though it raises further questions about what relationships in…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5002 The Bible does not approach human sexuality and gender as peripheral matters of private preference or cultural convention. From the opening chapters of Genesis they are woven into the fabric of creation itself, part of what it means to be made in God’s image and to live as the creatures He designed. Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5004 The question of masculinity has become genuinely contested in contemporary Western culture. From one direction comes the insistence that traditional masculine virtues are inherently problematic, expressions of privilege and domination that require deconstruction. From another, a reactive form of masculinity has emerged that confuses aggression, emotional closure, and domination with genuine strength. Neither…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5005 To speak of biblical femininity in the current cultural moment is to invite immediate suspicion that what follows will be a list of restrictions, a theological justification of reduced expectations, or a religious endorsement of what critics would call patriarchy. None of that would be accurate. The biblical portrait of womanhood is one…