by Roger Jones | Feb 27, 2018 | WGA Blog
In his book Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture, Mark Yarhouse has identified three “frameworks” or “lenses” that people use when thinking about the transgender topic. They are 1) the integrity framework, 2) the...
by Bess Moro | Feb 22, 2018 | WGA Blog
“I am no longer ashamed, but still find depression difficult to speak about because the experience is so unspeakable. Yet Henri Nouwen’s spirit continues to call me and many others to more openness and vulnerability, more shared humanity and mutual healing, even- and...
by Scott Kingry | Feb 20, 2018 | WGA Blog
In my last blog, Addiction=Despair, I explored what happens when we’re repeatedly wounded in relationships. Many of us, out of sheer desperation, will lose hope or simply kill it. When hope dies or we’re just plain tired of being hurt again, it can lead to a crossroad...
by Mary Heathman | Feb 15, 2018 | WGA Blog
Headlines often trigger emotion. That’s what they are designed to do, after all. The messages that claim to “spark outrage” or promise “shocking new details” on the latest scandal will sometimes catch my attention enough to read an article, or watch a news clip. ...
by Scott Kingry | Feb 13, 2018 | WGA Blog
“If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the...
