Journal: Eikon
Volume: EIKON 07:2 (Fall 2025)
Article: From The Pastor’s Desk: Telling A Better Story
Author: Todd Pruitt

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From The Pastor’s Desk: Telling A Better Story

Todd Pruitt

Todd Pruitt is the Lead Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg VA and co-host of the podcast Mortification of Spin.

The church’s focus on matters of sexuality and gender seems to some like an unhealthy preoccupation. It is not difficult to find critics both inside and outside the church expressing incredulity and even mockery over the time and energy that churches, denominations, and various Christian ministries have dedicated to these subjects. But we didn’t start the fire. The reason there has been an uptick in Christian resources focusing on gender, marriage, sexuality, the body, etc. is because of the unprecedented attempts to upend even the most basic facts of life that everyone in the world knew until about fifteen minutes ago. The boundaries are being pushed so furiously that the debate over homosexuality seems almost passé. Indeed, many celebrity evangelicals have now openly affirmed homosexuality as though to do otherwise is against the very spirit of Christian charity.

Transgressing God’s Boundaries

Ever the transgressors, men and women have sought not only to push God’s boundaries, but to obliterate them entirely. From the beginning, sin has been humanity’s foolish gamble at self-deification. It is an attempt to be a law unto ourselves through the deliberate rejection of God’s law. The first sin, as described in Genesis 3, was an attempt to be like God in a way that was never intended for humanity.

Transgressing the boundaries God had established regarding sexuality and marriage is a reach for godhood just as much as the more recent gender rebellion is. In these ways, men and women are seeking

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to usurp God’s wise and gracious authority while simultaneously imagining themselves to be gods.

For this reason, we may understand homosexuality and transgenderism as species of paganism. They are the fruit of the denial of the first two chapters of Genesis. They are deliberate movements away from the order, harmony, and life-giving goodness of God’s design in favor of the chaos and dis-integration of pagan myths. God-given complementarity is traded away for sin-induced confusion.

Now we are told that women can be men, that men can give birth, and that removing the sexual organs from healthy children and mutilating their bodies is not only acceptable but of vital necessity for their well-being. Such grave deceptions have caused confusion not just “out there,” but even within the church — especially among our children. And so the need

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