A Christian Response to Intersex
By Lianne Simon Jennifer Anne Cox wrote her book Intersex in Christ: Ambiguous Biology and the Gospel as an evangelical response to intersex. Her message to evangelical Christians is this: the Gospel is as...
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It Isn’t Morning Yet
By Elrena Evans The world is a broken place, and when I look around I see that brokenness writ large. White supremacists are marching in the streets. Floodwaters are seeping into the homes of...
Affirmations & Denials: A Few Ideas for Responding to the Nashville Statement
By Veronica Timbers Here are some practical applications for pushing back against the harm of the Nashville Statement and taking collective action toward justice. Just for fun, I will use “The Statement’s” format to...
Expanding the Parameters: The Nashville Statement
By Jon Carlson The last week of August, while the floodwaters were rising in Houston, the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood released a statement “declaring once again the true story of the world...
The Nashville Statement: Lord, Have Mercy
By Brian Lugioyo Let me preface my response by saying that I hold a conservative view of sex and marriage, one closer to Augustine than to the common evangelical position that implicitly rejects friendship...
Intersex and the Nashville Statement
By Lianne Simon The recently published Nashville Statement represents the beliefs of a coalition of conservative evangelical leaders regarding same-sex marriage, gender identity, and even intersex. Although their position regarding intersex may seem innocuous...
This Is No Time for Division
By Kimberly Dent I am frustrated by the stark, stiff-necked posture that my brothers and sisters in Christ who penned the Nashville Statement are advising. Even as I share the writers’ interpretation of God’s...
Why the Nashville Statement Is Dangerous
By Derek Kaser My heart aches because of the Nashville Statement. My heart aches because it is reckless and dangerous and may put real people—image bearers of God—at risk. To help explain why that...
The Nashville Statement: It’s Time to Listen and Learn
By Kristyn Komarnicki As the nation is reeling from racial violence and crippling floods, a group of leaders decided it was a good time to draw some sharp lines around sexuality issues, making sexual...
