gender – Red Letter Christians

Now more than ever: Let’s get the Equal Rights Amendment finalized

Lisa Sharon Harper, Allyson McKinney Timm, Valarie Kaur, Mary Hunt, Rabbi Sharon Brous and Ani Zonneveld

September 8, 2022

As women of faith, we are committed to the common task of making the ERA the law of the land. (RNS) — Recent Supreme Court opinions dangerously undermine women’s equal protection under the law. As women of fai...

Blessing a Cultural Threshold

Dori Baker

July 9, 2021

Church Life, LGBTQ+, Practical Justice

A threshold is a place of letting go of an old identity and waiting on a new identity to emerge. It is a liminal moment when the sacred is being born in us, a time of unravelling and slowly reknitting back together.

Moving from Exclusion to Embrace in the Gender Conversation

Vincent Gil

March 26, 2021

Books, Church Life, LGBTQ+

My hope is that this work will become a resource and a way to respond, understanding very well that there’s still a whole lot more to unravel.

Patriarchy and the Gender of God

Jon Mathieu

December 7, 2020

LGBTQ+, Theology, Women

This ought to disturb us on a theological level alone. Why are we using language about a non-gendered or gender-expansive God that makes us view God in accordance with deeply ingrained notions of binary gender?

Beyond Church In-Fighting

Andrew Hammond

January 19, 2019

Church Life, LGBTQ+, Women

The more passionately you believe in something, the more tempting it is to behave badly in its defense.

How Biology (and the Bible) Breaks the Binary of Human Sexuality

Erin Lane

October 27, 2018

LGBTQ+, Politics, Theology

Nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God.

Male and Female: One Image, One Purpose

Mimi Haddad

March 26, 2014

General

MAR 26, 2014 | BY: MIMI HADDAD -- Have you ever wondered why, when a friend announces they’re expecting a child, your first thought is...

Alexia Salvatierra Dishes on “The Big Lie” and Peter Heltzel Sings Songs of Freedom

Margot Starbuck

January 13, 2014

Church Life, General

JAN 13, 2014 | BY: MARGOT STARBUCK -- As a Christian who, for decades, has loved Jesus and loved justice, it struck me as odd that Faith...

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: Playful, Earnest God-Wrestling with Rachel Held Evans

Morgan Guyton

November 10, 2012

General

BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- As an evangelical Christian growing up in the deep South, Rachel Held Evans was surrounded...

Why Gender Hierarchy Makes No Biblical Sense to Me

Morgan Guyton

January 10, 2012

General

My wife and I decided to do something bold for our wedding. Each of us preached while the other person washed our feet, rotating halfway through the sermon. The text we preached on was the controversial Ephesi...