A Ministry of Make and Deepen Disciples
Embrace Webinar #28 – Mark Yarhouse
Gender Identity & Faith
Gender Identity and Faith: Clinical Postures, Tools and Case Studies for Client-Centered Care
By Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky
This book carves out clinical space for mental health professionals to help people who wish to take their gender identity, religious identity, and the relationship between the two seriously.
Emerging Gender Identities: Understanding the Diverse Experiences of Today’s Youth
By Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky
This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that are being embraced by an increasing number of adolescents.
With Dr. Julia Sadusky
In this webinar, Dr. Sadusky combines her youth worker and clinical psychologist experience to provide greater understanding of emerging gender identities and to offer wise responses to youth workers’ and parents’ questions.
Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church and What the Bible Has to Say
By Preston Sprinkle
Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who want help navigating issues related to the transgender conversation.
With Dr. Preston Sprinkle
Dr. Sprinkle frames why this conversation is so important, provides hospitable language and defines terms, and answers questions related to this key question from a Christian perspective: “If someone experiences incongruence between their biological sex and their internal sense of self, which one determines who they are–and why?”
Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture
By Mark Yarhouse
This book offers a Christian perspective on transgender issues that eschews simplistic answers and appreciates the psychological and theological complexity. In the midst of a tense political climate, Yarhouse calls Christians to come alongside those on the margins and stand with them as they resolve their questions and concerns about gender identity.
Male and Female God Created Them: The Challenge of Intersexuality
By Heather Looy
Found in the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, Dr. Looy provides insight into the “genderfulness of God,” and speculates on why God made two genders.
Mark Yarhouse (Presenter)
Mark A. Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is professor of psychology at Wheaton College, where he directs the Sexual and Gender Identity (SGI) Institute and serves as a core faculty member in the doctoral program in clinical psychology. Yarhouse has published more than eighty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or coauthor of several books, including Understanding Gender Dysphoria; Modern Psychopathologies; Understanding Sexual Identity, Sexuality and Sex Therapy; and Family Therapies. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Psychology and Theology and as an ad hoc reviewer with Journal of Homosexuality.
Claire Nicholson McClun (Co-Facilitator)
Claire has a passion for equipping the church to be disciples who make disciples. She and her husband Adam earned M.Div. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and their joint call is to be a bridge between the community and the Church. She has pastored in the Kansas City area for a decade and is a disciple-maker to their two young children, Theo and Grace.
MICHELLE SANCHEZ (Co-Facilitator)
Michelle is the author of Color-Courageous Discipleship, Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition,, and the picture book, God’s Beloved Community. She has previously served in leadership for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, launched ministries to international students with a multiethnic Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) team, and worked as an investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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