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New Subscription Service Folx Tackles Queer and Trans Health and Faces Some Community Skepticism FG Trade via iStock Even as more health centers nationwide become trained to provide LGBTQ-competent care and more insurers (public and private) cover transgender-related care such as hormones and surgeries, queer and trans folks especially those in red states and rural areas still often feel left out in the cold when it comes to medicine. Last year, a Center for American Progress survey found that 15% of LGBTQ Americans report postponing or avoiding medical treatment due to discrimination, including nearly three in 10 transgender individuals. A.G. Breitenstein, J.D., M.P.H., 52, wants to change all that. She’s the genderqueer-identifying founder and CEO of Folx Health, the subscription-based health care service for queer and trans folks that launched in December, soon raising $25 million in venture funding. After graduating from Yale and then the University of Connecticu ....
Church’s Silence on Sex has Led Christians to Look to the World for Answers The “Single Minded” online series is seeking to create positive, biblical conversations about sex, starting with “Rethinking Biblical Sexuality”. Most Christians’ understanding of sex and sexuality has been shaped by the world because the church has been largely silent about the issue, according to an expert on God and sexuality. Single Minded, an evangelical Christian initiative seeking to create positive, biblical conversations about singleness, have been holding regular In a discussion with Reverend Dr Dani Treweek, director of Single Minded, and Dr Juli Slattery, author of ....
Timothy Keller speaks at Movement Day Global Cities at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, October 27, 2016. | The Christian Post/Leonardo Blair What s often referred to as purity culture is not the same thing as remaining sexually abstinent outside of marriage, though many conflate the two, according to Tim Keller, founder and former pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City. Keller explained in a Facebook post that in the early church, the Christian sexual ethic â that sex was only for within a mutual, whole-self-giving, super-consensual life-long covenant â was revolutionary, given the prevailing Greco-Roman ethic of the day. It was based on a radical egalitarian principle that the husbandâs body belonged to the wife, and the wifeâs to the husband (1 Corinthians 7:4). That meant that anyone who within marriage exploited or abused was violating the Christian sex ethic just as much or more as those who had sex outside of marri ....
Timothy Keller speaks at Movement Day Global Cities at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, October 27, 2016. | The Christian Post/Leonardo Blair What s often referred to as purity culture is not the same thing as remaining sexually abstinent outside of marriage, though many conflate the two, according to Tim Keller, founder and former pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City. Keller explained in a Facebook post that in the early church, the Christian sexual ethic that sex was only for within a mutual, whole-self-giving, super-consensual life-long covenant was revolutionary, given the prevailing Greco-Roman ethic of the day. It was based on a radical egalitarian principle that the husband’s body belonged to the wife, and the wife’s to the husband (1 Corinthians 7:4). That meant that anyone who within marriage exploited or abused was violating the Christian sex ethic just as much or more as those who had sex outside of marriage, he said. ....