A Short FAQ on Sex and Gender

In order to provide biblical answers to important questions of our day, we have begin a series of short FAQs. This set of articles aims to provide simple, biblical answers to some of the more difficult challenges Christianity faces today. In this first FAQ, we answer three important questions: what does it mean to be a person? Should we distinguish between gender and biological sex? And lastly, how can we help a person whose biological sex is ambiguous? Nothing here is meant to provide comprehensive pastoral advice. But we hope to provide starting points for personal discipleship and crisp thoughts...

The Editor

The God of Seeing

Darryl Dash

No Secrets

Darryl Dash

How Does Gender Relate to Sex?

Wyatt Graham

Anglicans, Baptists, and Orthodoxy

Stan Fowler

Does Galatians 3:28 Invalidate Gender Roles?

Wyatt Graham

In an ironic twist, a passage that celebrates the unity we have in Christ has caused a deep divide in the church. In Galatians 3:28, Paul wrote, “there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” By these words, does Paul invalidate gender roles in the church? A number of interpreters think so. Some interpret Paul to be speaking about an eschatological unity that invalidates distinct gender roles in the church, albeit without dissolving all differences between the sexes. One author even goes so far to call it “ludicrous” that Christians should preclude women from...

Does Galatians 3:28 Invalidate Gender Roles?

Wyatt Graham

The Question of Sex

Darryl Dash

When I began the process of planting a church near downtown Toronto, I expected sophisticated questions about God. I brushed up by reading apologetics books so I would be ready. We interviewed people on the street for a series. “If you were to ask God any question, what would that be?” Surprisingly, nobody questioned God’s existence. Some joked. “When will the Leafs win the Stanley Cup?” Most scratched their heads. They had never thought of God long enough to have any questions for him. I put most of the apologetics books away. Since then I’ve come to realize: the major...