Children as young as three are being asked what gender they identify with.
Parents in Brighton and Hove who are seeking a place for their children in primary school, have been asked to ‘support your child to choose the gender they most identify with or if they have another gender identity please leave this blank and discuss this with your child’s school.’
Read a more detailed report, along with some thoughtful comments from one of the parents, here. …
20. Understand alpha and beta. Alpha traits are things like leadership, dominance, bravery, and disregard for rules and safety. Beta traits are things like helpfulness, supportiveness, reliability, and ‘being nice’. Women are attracted to the former (they’re exciting), but appreciate the latter (they’re good to have around). To be a successful husband, you need to have both traits.
21. Distinguish between ‘good alpha’ and ‘asshole alpha’. Alpha traits need to be kept in check – driving too fast is alpha, but also dangerous. …
Transgender people believe that their gender identity does not match their biological sex. The spotlight is now very much on the extension of human rights to this group of people. Recently, the debate in the US has been around whether people be allowed to use the public bathroom of their choice.
As Trevin Wax observes:- ‘the unmooring of “gender identity” from “biological sex” leads to a number of unresolved questions, as well as troubling inconsistencies among advocates of transgender rights.’…
In current debates about same-sex marriage, the assumption that marriage has always been between ‘one man and one woman’ has been disputed. What about marriage in the Old Testament? Did not David (and others) have more than one wife? Does not that fact undermine the assumption?
Monogamy was established by God in creation (Gen. 2:18–25), reaffirmed by Christ in his teachings about marriage (Matt. 19:3–12 // Mark 10:2–12), and echoed in the later NT when it touches on marriage (1 Cor.…
11. Male obligations have been re-branded as “privileges”. The male obligation to provide for his wife and children is now regarded as a privilege. No-one has bothered to ask men whether they would prefer to go out and work in an office, mine or factory, rather than spend more time with the family. But if a woman thinks she would be more fulfilled by going out to work, rather than staying at home, she should have the choice. …
Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap, by Greg Krehbiel. Crowhill Publishing, 2014.
Subtitled ’50 politically incorrect thoughts for men’, this little book aims to unsettle modern assumptions about women and men. Krehbiel invites us to consider that the ‘traditional’ way of understanding the two sexes may not be as oppressive as we have been told it is, and that today’s ideology may actually be very harmful to us all. He develops this in a disarming, amusing, and gently outrageous way.…
It is all to easy for Christians either to ignore contemporary culture, or to demonise it as ‘bad’ without even trying to understand it.
Trevin Wax says that ‘examining a cultural artifact is not a statement on the spiritual state of an artist; neither is it a blanket endorsement or condemnation of a product.’ Rather, ‘cultural commentaries are an exercise in cultural literacy, what Kevin Vanhoozer describes as “discerning the meaning of cultural texts and trends in light of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”’…
1. Train them in the way they should go, and not in the way they would.
2. Train up your child with all tenderness, affection and patience.
3. Train up your children with an abiding persuation on your mind that much depends on you. “Beware of that miserable delusion into which some have fallen – that parents can do nothing for their children, that you must leave them alone, wait for grace, and sit still … The devil rejoices to see such reasoning.”…
Alistair Bruce, the person responsible for historical accuracy in the ITV series Downton Abbey has said that he was forced to leave out religious references in the show for fear of offending viewers. The show was set between about 1910 and 1925, and at that time Christianity would have had a key role in British social life – especially that of the aristocracy. They would have attended church, and they would have said grace before meals. …
