Why do we make bad choices? Is it because of lack of information? Is it a failure to consider the outcome, to weigh the consequences of a particular action? A lack of support to do what is right? A weak will? Is … Continue reading
sex education
Beyond Consent
What if sex were about … something more than my ‘Yes’? One Valentine’s Day members of the Love and Fidelity Network at universities across the United States countered the casual sex culture on their campuses with a poster campaign to … Continue reading
Gender explained in less than three minutes
Gender. Sex. LGBTQI. Puberty blockers. Sex re-assignment surgery. How do you explain all this to your sons and daughters? To your students? To the teens in your youth group? I hope the biblical and research information in these last nine … Continue reading
Walter Schumm: Feelings and identity
Before 2015 little was known about transgender issues. Within a year transgender issues were on the front pages of newspapers every day, at least in the western world, and schools everywhere were scrambling to put into place policies for bathroom … Continue reading
Engaging with the transgender issue
When your child or your student or a member of your youth group asks, “What about transgender?” what are you going to say? Walt Mueller, President of the Center for Parent Youth Understanding, is right: this is a “complex, difficult, … Continue reading
Becoming Nicole
Can someone really be trans-gender? Can a child born male really be female? Can one’s “gender identity” (one’s innermost concept of self) be the opposite of one’s “natal” (biological) sex? Let’s leave aside that question for the moment and listen … Continue reading