Gender, Equality and Hermeneutics: An Interview with Craig Keener
TOJ: Homosexuality and women’s roles are the divisive issues in the Western church, and much of the debate is predicated on what scripture says, what authority scripture has, and how to understand...
View ArticleA Sinful Doctrine?: Sexuality and Gender in Augustine’s Doctrine of Original...
{Theologian General’s Warning: This doctrine [of original sin] has been identified by certain members of the theological community as a contributor to the oppression and marginalization of women, and...
View ArticleLot’s Wife
It didn’t take a white-hot whirlwind To set me down for good on this smoking plain; I was turning hard already— tired of the edicts and injunctions, of following my husband’s righteous backside. I...
View ArticleImago Dei
In a city like Rome there is no shortage of glamorous prototypes or chilling reminders of our human condition – on Byzantine apses, in Romanesque side-chapels, even on Renaissance bridges spanning the...
View ArticleThe Accused: An Old Testament Hermeneutic of John 8: 1–11
It is my experience in pastoral care and counseling that the issue of sexual sin is common among both men and women. All too often people are accused, either rightly or wrongly, of sexual sin and the...
View ArticleRecklessly Grasping after Meaning: Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and the...
This essay explores issues of meaning and divine providence in the context of Mary Doria Russell's THE SPARROW.
View ArticleSexuality, Dialogue, and the Church: An Interview with James Alison
In this interview, James Alison speaks with us about his work on the issue of sexuality and how he attempts to create a dialogical space around this topic in his Catholic context.
View ArticleNaked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture
Amanda Barbee on how the purity movement cloaks female sexuality in silence and shame, stunting women in their growth as sexual beings and causing long-lasting psychological and spiritual damage.
View ArticlePantyhose, Abstinence, and Fear: Constructions of Sexual Identity among...
This article discusses the purity culture of the Southern Baptist Church and its potential ramifications upon women’s self-identifying sexuality.
View ArticleThe Spirit Helps Us in Our Weakness: A Review of God, Sexuality, and the Self
Sarah Coakley’s important book recommends prayer as a way to an incorporative model of the Trinity.
View ArticleSome Holy Ghost
Several pieces displayed in an art museum exhume the challenging past that led one young poet to a renewed sense of faith.
View ArticleThree Prayers and a Consummation
Two women whose strategies for living a meaningful life conflict vie for ownership of an antique family barn.
View ArticleAnarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power
I have to get out of this bad habit of taking on too many books at once. I get all gung-ho about reviewing anything that appears interesting to me–well, as gung-ho as a Mennonite can get (I’m lapsed,...
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Never Mind the (Heterosexist) Bollocks, Here’s Jamie Heckert
Jamie Heckert, PhD (University of Edinburgh), is a founding member of Anarchist Studies Network, a practitioner of integral yoga, and the co-editor of Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships...
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Recklessly Grasping after Meaning: Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and the...
A few years ago I read The Sparrow, an interesting, rather heady first novel by Mary Doria Russell. The Sparrow relates the discovery of and Christian mission to a distant planet that emanates a kind...
View ArticleAnarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power
I have to get out of this bad habit of taking on too many books at once. I get all gung-ho about reviewing anything that appears interesting to me–well, as gung-ho as a Mennonite can get (I’m lapsed,...
View ArticleSexuality, Dialogue, and the Church: An Interview with James Alison
James Alison, the Roman Catholic theologian, priest, and author, currently travels the world as an itinerant witness for the reconciliation of faith and sexuality. Indeed, he is most well known for his...
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Never Mind the (Heterosexist) Bollocks, Here’s Jamie Heckert
Jamie Heckert, PhD (University of Edinburgh), is a founding member of Anarchist Studies Network, a practitioner of integral yoga, and the co-editor of Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships...
View ArticleNaked and Ashamed: Women and Evangelical Purity Culture
Throughout its history, the church has had a complicated relationship with the body, fraught with ambiguity and contradiction.1 The body has been seen as both a vessel for salvation and a barrier to...
View ArticlePantyhose, Abstinence, and Fear: Constructions of Sexual Identity among...
In the summer of 2011, I interviewed four women between the ages of twenty-six and thirty-two who were raised in the Southern Baptist Church (SBC) and have since left that church or religion all...
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