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August 23, 2016 By Denny Burk
By Denny Burk Yesterday, we looked at a controversy about an Olympic athlete who is reported to suffer from an intersex condition. Today, we acknowledge that from a Christian perspective, there are larger issues for us to consider than the male and female divisions of Olympic competition. Cases like this one raise questions about the...
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August 22, 2016 By Denny Burk
By Denny Burk As the Olympics wound up last week, there were numerous reports about an Olympic runner whose sex was a point of controversy. It is reported that this athlete has an intersex condition called 5-ARD and has the testosterone level of a man. The athlete competed as a woman and won the gold...
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July 20, 2016 By Grant Castleberry
By Denny Burk Last month, the CBMW board chairman invited me to consider coming on board as the new president of the organization. As I began praying about this unexpected opportunity, my thoughts turned very quickly from whether to accept the position to what CBMW needs to be and to do in the days ahead....
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July 20, 2016 By Grant Castleberry
By Matt Damico The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has named Denny Burk the organization’s next president. CBMW’s board of directors made the appointment shortly after former president Owen Strachan announced his resignation last week. The appointment makes Burk the organization’s ninth president since its founding in 1987. “I want to thank the CBMW...
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February 3, 2016 By Grant Castleberry
Yesterday, two generals made a proposal that women should also be drafted along with men. This follows the December mandate by Defense Secretary Ash Carter that women be integrated into all combat arms roles across the military. At that time, I wrote extensively that Carter’s and the Obama administration’s policy was foolish and misguided for a number of...
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January 22, 2016 By Grant Castleberry
Jeff Jones Last week, a British parliamentary committee proposed removing references to “male” and “female” from thousands of government forms. They also proposed exploring a raft of other changes, including a “gender ‘x’ option on passports,” and suggested that gender-specific school uniforms and lavatories were “problematic.” Here in Canada, the Minister of Education of my own province of...
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