Denny Burk has a post on his website about a married man and father of two becoming a woman. A transgendered person is one who self-identifies with a gender role that does not match his/her biological sex…[e]ven though he was married with two small sons, he wanted to stop being a man and become...

By Dave Jenkins Yesterday, I posted Part 1 of this post, in which I talked about the importance of understanding the holiness of God in light of our purity. I also talked about how repentance must be the first step in overcoming lust. Undergirding my points about purity in the home, in the church, and...

By Dave Jenkins My sophomore year in high school, I was approached by a number of people who told me that no matter what I wanted, whether it was drugs or pornography, I could have it whenever I wanted.  At this time, I was a youth leader not only at church but also at my...

by Owen Strachan Earlier this week I wrote a piece for Manual on the “smokin’ hot wife” references you sometimes hear in evangelical churches. I realized today that I should have addressed another dimension of this trend: the daughters who hear this language in churches. Let me first say this: many of the men who would use “smokin’...

By Rondi Lauterbach Our nest is empty. The last child flew the coop on her wedding day almost four years ago, even though we got a little practice when our youngest went off to college. After we had moved her into the dorm, I remember wandering around our empty house with the vague sense that...

By Evan Lenow News out of Santiago, Chile reports than the first recorded male pregnancy in the nation’s history has officially resulted in the birth of a child. Male pregnancy? Did I read that correctly? Here’s the opening paragraph from The Santiago Times: A transgender man in Chile’s northernmost city of Arica gave birth late...