Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 12059. Should Christians attend gay weddings? This is one of the hardest practical questions I am asked, and it is hard precisely because the people asking are not culture warriors. They are usually someone whose brother, colleague or oldest friend has sent an invitation, and who loves that person and does not want to…
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: 9 minutesQuestion 12017 Homosexual practice is the subject on which the church in the West is most frequently accused of cruelty, and it is the subject on which we most often deserve at least part of the accusation. Not because the biblical teaching is unclear, but because the manner of our teaching has too often been…
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 6072. Lust and attraction are not the same thing, and a great many sincere Christians have been tormented by the assumption that they are. Noticing that someone is beautiful is not adultery. Jesus never said it was. The difference between lust and attraction is one of those distinctions that sounds academic until you meet…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6071. Scripture defines sexual sin with considerable care, and masturbation is never named among the things it defines. That silence is the first fact any honest answer has to reckon with. This is a question people are ashamed to ask and desperate to have answered, so I want to be careful and direct. What…