Christianity and its subsects have been a significant sociocultural influence on American culture – specifically in the way it has viewed men’s and women’s gender roles. According to Amy M. Blackstone, “gender roles are based on the different expectations that individuals, groups, and societies have of individuals based on their sex and based on each society's values and beliefs about gender.” There have been plenty of written and spoken works discussing the idea of Christianity and gender roles. However, there is no overall consensus across those that I have read on what the role of gender is in both the historic and contemporary church. To better map this range of gender roles advocated in Christian cultural commentaries over time, I am building an overview of what commonplace Christian scriptures and commentaries say about gender  roles. My ultimate aim is better tracing how Christian thought has contributed to gender roles in historical and contemporary America. To this end, I have analyzed texts in three categories—texts from early Christianity, texts from contemporary Christianity, and texts from popular culture that advocate certain gender roles—using a code created from said texts. This analysis allows me to study gender roles present in Christianity in order to explain common-day American gendered norms and place a more specific definition of the role of sex in the history of the Christian church.