With Pope Francis headed to Washington Tuesday for his first visit to the U.S., politicians and media commentators from all sides have tried to predict what the Catholic leader will say or do.
But despite the tendency of American media to label the pope's view as either liberal of conservative, the Pope arrives in the U.S. not as a political or diplomatic leader, but as a spiritual and moral one.
(RNS) — The Association of Certified Biblical Counselors is planning what it calls evangelical Christians' first-ever conference on transgender issues. The association will co-sponsor "Transgender Confusion and Transformational Christianity" with the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood on Oct. 5 on the campus of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
All the speakers have agreed to a statement published last year that rejects "that a human being could possess a gender other than the one indicated by biological sex."
