Part One: a concussion launched me on the journey to the Web Surfer Series as it is today.
[tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true” remove_url=”true” remove_hidden_hashtags=”true” remove_hidden_urls=”true”]Part Three: Eye-opening lessons from an unexpected, challenging answer to a sci-fi author’s prayer. ow.ly/Qiq5A [/tweetthis]
The character God challenged me to write about, Elisha Micah Gabrielson, was born with gender-ambiguous genitalia. In his day, the turn of the 22nd century, such children’s original birth certificates always give their gender as “intersexed” and the only treatment option the parents are allowed is surgery to give the child normal female genitalia. Elisha was born to Christian conservatives who went against this tide to raise their child as male and fought a court battle to get him legally recognized as male and to get him surgery to give him normal male genitalia.
They won those objectives when he was five. By then, he already shared his family’s Christian faith and conservative values, he self-identified as male, and he desired surgery to be a normal boy. When puberty partially feminized him again, the surgical options he was given for gaining full adult male functioning struck him as immoral, and he retains an all or nothing mentality on that issue clear into his sophomore year of college. The local church he grew up in accepts the teen as-is, but he gets rejected a lot in our wider subculture by folks confusedly mistaking him for a female-to-male transsexual. Likewise, the world hates him for his beliefs.
Continue reading Journey to Web Surfer Series Part III at Helping Hands Press’s blog
Part Four is expected to conclude this testimony at the end of August.
[tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true” remove_url=”true” remove_hidden_hashtags=”true” remove_hidden_urls=”true”]Journey to #WebSurfer PT3: Eye-opening lessons from an unexpected, challenging answer to #sci-fi author @andreajgraham’s prayer. ow.ly/Qiq5A [/tweetthis]
[tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true” remove_url=”true” remove_hidden_hashtags=”true”]Journey to #WebSurfer PT2: How God challenged @andreajgraham to rely more on God in the writing process. http://ow.ly/Qlc69[/tweetthis]
[tweetthis remove_twitter_handles=”true” remove_url=”true”]A concussion stole @andreajgraham’s story and launched the Journey to the #WebSurfer Series as it is today. ow.ly/OKaph [/tweetthis]