This presentation explores cultural trends in relationships between men and women, such as increasing androgyny, growing numbers of singles, the drift toward homosexuality, and the feminization of poverty. Melba Maggay uses a biblical lens to help us understand where we are now and where we should be going.

General Session, 42 mins.
Side by Side: Gender from a Christian Perspective
CBE International Symposium, Bangalore, India

MELBA PADILLA MAGGAY (Ph.D.) is the founder and president of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture (ISACC) in Quezon City, Philippines. She is an anthropologist who specializes in intercultural communication and has served as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge under the auspices of Tyndale House.