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No, God Isn’t Transgender

Robert A. J. Gagnon

In what has to be a new low for the New York Times, the Gray Lady (or should we now say the Bearded Lady?) has published an op-ed piece...

The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries

Robert A. J. Gagnon

Rachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example...

The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries

Robert A. J. Gagnon

Rachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example...

How Should Christians Respond to the Transgender Phenomenon?

Robert A. J. Gagnon

In June, Christianity Today published an article by Mark Yarhouse, a professor of psychology at Regent University in Virginia, on “gender dysphoria.” Gender dysphoria is the APA’s current description...

Fuller Seminary Takes a Stand

Robert A. J. Gagnon

Fuller Seminary decided not to offer tenure to a New Testament professor, J. R. Daniel Kirk, whose view of marriage does not comport with Jesus’s view. Although a decision...

Gordon College Wins—and Loses?

Robert A. J. Gagnon

President Lindsay of Gordon College is a great guy and Gordon is an important evangelical institution of higher learning. I’m delighted that the Administration and Board of Gordon College...

Smearing Sexual Orientation Change

Robert A. J. Gagnon

Yesterday I had the good pleasure to join a courageous group of people for a conference entitled “Transformation Potential” held at the Emmanuel Centre in London. The conference was...

Why San Francisco’s City Church is Wrong About Sex

Robert A. J. Gagnon

The senior pastor and elders of San Francisco’s evangelical City Church will no longer require members to abstain from homosexual practice, so long as the homosexual activity occurs in...

What Newsweek Doesn’t Get About the Bible

Robert A. J. Gagnon

Newsweek, in an article by Kurt Eichenwald, says that Christians who regard homosexual practice as sin (or who—horror!—favor prayer in public school) “are God’s frauds, cafeteria Christians,” “hypocrites,” “Biblical...

A Word in Defense of Victoria Osteen

Robert A. J. Gagnon

When I first saw this video of Victoria Osteen’s comments, I thought this was too easy to poke fun at. The video (with or without the spliced-in scene from...