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Helping Young People Navigate the Cultural Minefield
At my son’s large public high school it is not uncommon to see kids in various states of “gender fluidity,” but not simply in the sense of feminine boys and tomboy girls as I saw back in my own public high school in the 1980s. No, these kids are either formally “transitioning” or experimenting with opposite-sex alter-egos, both of which have become trendy and faddish.As parents, we are often lulled by a misguided compassion that keeps us from sharing the truth, even in a loving way. If your comp
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Jun 18th 2024
Our Culture Is Facing a Reckoning
Despite the ruins of the Sexual Revolution being all around us, many Protestants are doubling down—not only continuing to support contraception, but starting to embrace other related practices that have historically been considered grave sins. And as usual, theirsola scripturaapproach is allowing them to re-interpret Scripture to find justification. For example, the debate over homosexuality and same-sex “marriage” in Protestantism is taking an almost identical trajectory to the debate over cont
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Jan 16th 2023
When God is Forgotten . . . the Creature Itself Grows Unintelligible
Since activists who fuse their identity with their struggle must always be at war against an opponent, almost immediately after its victory in the Supreme Court with regard to marriage, the gay rights movement transforms into the LGBT movement, which turns into the LGBTQ movement, which then turns into LGBTQIA only to become LGBTQIA+.Like all nominalist endeavors, the subject becomes atomized until it reaches the level of isolated individuals. The plus sign is placed at the end of LGBTQIA so tha
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Nov 10th 2021
How Do I Talk to My Teen about "Gender Fluidity"?
One of my sons attends a large public high school where it is not uncommon to see kids in various states of “gender fluidity”—but not simply in the sense of “feminine" boys and tomboy girls as I saw back in my large public high school in the 1980s. No, these kids are either formally “transitioning,” or else experimenting with opposite sex alter-egos, both of which have become trendy and faddish.As parents, we are often lulled by a misguided compassion that keeps us from sharing the truth, even i
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May 9th 2019
Explaining The Unexplainable To Young Children
Transgender Advice For Your Younger ChildrenOne day, I took some of the younger boys to get haircuts (yes, another lesson at the salon), and the stylist who took the boys’ names was clearly attempting to “transition” between the two sexes. This person was friendly and gave a great haircut. We did not say a word of judgment or derision, nor did we exchange glances that might have made this stylist uncomfortable, but simply went about our business as usual. When we got in the car, a discussion e
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Dec 6th 2018