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The Gospel Coalition 2024 Book Awards, Public Theology & Current Events Category, Award of Distinction We live in a cultural moment where the definition of ""woman"" eludes the keenest of thinkers and brightest of scientists, where one's biological sex and one's gender are divorced, where the meaning of gender itself is a constantly moving target, and where girls and women, especially, struggle to know who they are. Where societal confusion has naturally ensued from this state of affairs, and Christians especially wonder how to think and respond to it, Katie J. McCoy offers a clear and helpful guide in her debut trade book, To Be a Woman. In these pages, Katie will help you understand: Why, as a culture, we've arrived in such a place of gender confusion What the relationship is between biological sex and gender, and why this relationship is so crucial The truth about gender transitioning, including the irreversible damage of hormone therapy on the female human body Common myths and misunderstandings in the gender debate What Scripture and science have to say on the matter Ways to respond in a Christlike way to loved ones struggling with gender identity

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This book is an important contribution to the gender narrative. In To Be a Woman: Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond, McCoy addresses our deepest questions, concerns and confusion with great wisdom, insight, love, grace, and compassion. We must wrestle with the truths contained within these pages in order to offer a hope-filled way forward for a generation seeking freedom. It is always the truth that sets us free. --Christine Caine Founder, Propel Women This is an important and well-researched book that remains wonderfully accessible. It begins with contemporary controversies over recent gender theories, traces their history, places them in biblical perspective, and sets forth a better and more glorious vision of God's design of the natural body. If you're looking for a compassionate and convictional resource that shines light on the confusion of our times, this is where you should begin. --Trevin Wax Vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board, author of The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Rethink Your Self, and Gospel Centered Teaching, columnist at The Gospel Coalition, and a fellow with the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics Dr. Katie J. McCoy has written an informative and courageous book about the war over women. This book is deeply compassionate, well-researched, and draws on the wisdom of Scripture where relevant. The world is fraught with a harmful mix of ignorance, misinformation, and propaganda about sex, gender, human bodies, identity, and psychological pathologies. But Dr. McCoy helps us understand what is being debated, the complexities of gender fluidity, the concerns that need to be raised, and the danger it potentially poses to women. A great read for someone looking for some common sense in a crazy culture war over gender identities. --Dr. Michael F. Bird (Ph.D University of Queensland) Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. 'Female identity is socially guided, philosophically formed, relationally confirmed, biologically grounded, and theologically bestowed.' This is Dr. McCoy's premise, and she delivers on it. This is one of the most instructive books I have read on the current gender issues in our culture. This issue is becoming the defining issue of Christian faithfulness in our generation, and all believers should be informed and prepared to give an answer about it. Dr. McCoy serves us well here. --J. D. Greear Pastor, The Summit Church

"""This book is an important contribution to the gender narrative. In To Be a Woman: The Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond, McCoy addresses our deepest questions, concerns and confusion with great wisdom, insight, love, grace, and compassion. We must wrestle with the truths contained within these pages in order to offer a hope-filled way forward for a generation seeking freedom. It is always the truth that sets us free."" --Christine Caine Founder, Propel Women ""This is an important and well-researched book that remains wonderfully accessible. It begins with contemporary controversies over recent gender theories, traces their history, places them in biblical perspective, and sets forth a better and more glorious vision of God's design of the natural body. If you're looking for a compassionate and convictional resource that shines light on the confusion of our times, this is where you should begin."" --Trevin Wax Vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board, author of The Thrill of Orthodoxy, Rethink Your Self, and Gospel Centered Teaching, columnist at The Gospel Coalition, and a fellow with the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics ""Dr. Katie J. McCoy has written an informative and courageous book about the war over women. This book is deeply compassionate, well-researched, and draws on the wisdom of Scripture where relevant. The world is fraught with a harmful mix of ignorance, misinformation, and propaganda about sex, gender, human bodies, identity, and psychological pathologies. But Dr. McCoy helps us understand what is being debated, the complexities of gender fluidity, the concerns that need to be raised, and the danger it potentially poses to women. A great read for someone looking for some common sense in a crazy culture war over gender identities."" --Dr. Michael F. Bird (Ph.D University of Queensland) Academic Dean and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. ""'Female identity is socially guided, philosophically formed, relationally confirmed, biologically grounded, and theologically bestowed.' This is Dr. McCoy's premise, and she delivers on it. This is one of the most instructive books I have read on the current gender issues in our culture. This issue is becoming the defining issue of Christian faithfulness in our generation, and all believers should be informed and prepared to give an answer about it. Dr. McCoy serves us well here."" --J. D. Greear Pastor, The Summit Church"

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Katie J. McCoy holds a PhD in Systematic Theology and is a former seminary professor. McCoy teaches and writes on the intersection of theology, culture, and women's issues, and has co-authored a work on the doctrine of humanity as part of the Theology for the People of God series (B&H Academic). Included among her research is discovering the pattern of justice for women in Old Testament laws.

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