Reading Together, Early Church Style …Wright wanted to step back and ask who was reading what in the first century. His advisors told him—and others scholars all thought—that he would have to include the first three to four centuries to … Continue reading →
Source: National LGBT Cancer Network Transgender/Gender-Nonconforming People and Cancer I wasn’t terribly up to date on these issues in spite of my own personal experiences. I have suspected for years that hormones used in transition, including “puberty blockers”, might be … Continue reading →
Source: The Ministry of the Disabled | Christianity Today Think about what people can do, not what they can’t do.
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I’m reading this right now. I was looking for something straightforward that I could pass along to others. Maybe not the answer to everything, but pointing clearly to the way out of the mess which is our cultural and “official” … Continue reading →
My Autistic Son’s Lesson: No One Is Broken …instead of telling him to stop pretending and join us, we started pretending and joined him. “Joining,” to use this author’s term, is what I have been advocating all along. Coming from … Continue reading →
I have imagined it, having grown up with an alcoholic parent, and through other long-term close encounters with alcoholic family members. Alcohol may not have directly caused any of this, but the danger it represents as a drug is clear … Continue reading →
RCTs do more than miss the long term injuries a drug might do us. They get used to building standards of care to which doctors are obliged to adhere. Anyone who figures it might not be wise to add a … Continue reading →
Trans people with autism express a gender at odds with societal expectation. Source: Living Between Genders
Continue reading →At the risk of stating the obvious, ADHD is not an illness. Rather, it is an unreliable and disempowering label for a loose collection of arbitrarily chosen and vaguely defined behaviors. ADHD has been avidly promoted as an illness by … Continue reading →