What is the difference between sex and gender? What does the Bible tell us about sex and

gender and how is that different from the dominant narrative of our culture?

How should Christians relate to those in the midst of gender dysphoria?

Join us as we answer these questions more with our guest today, Dr. Abigail Favale,

as a result of her new book called The Genesis of Gender.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

I'm your co-host Sean McDow.

And this is ThinkBiblically from tablet school theology at Biola University.

Abigail, welcome, glad to have you with us.

You have such an interesting personal journey involved in your study of gender specifically.

That forms a big part of the backstory here.

Tell us about where that journey started and sort of where you are today.

Sure. So I was raised as an evangelical Protestant and when I went to college at a Christian

school I became really interested in feminism and gender and social justice.

I was a philosophy major, I had lots of questions, and I was, I think I was personally invested in wanting to understand my own dignity as a woman.

What does it mean to be a woman?

I had this sense that there was something meaningful and important about that.

And that's when I started studying feminism

a little more intensively.

And then I graduated and went on to graduate school,

studying literature but also feminist theory and gender theory and also some kind of religious thought and theology thrown in there.

And so over the course of my 20s I developed this expertise in gender theory and feminist theory.

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