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You don’t have to look far in America today before realizing the intimate, and often times fraught, relationship between spirituality and sexuality. Be it cultural, communal, political or personal, our values are both shaped and informed by our faith, religiosity and spirituality—and these directly impact (our) perceptions of our sexual selves. Still, faith and sexuality are often seen as warring factions, instead of complementary. Becoming sexually literate includes recognizing how spiritual health connects to sexual well-being—creating a space to infuse faith into our sexuality, and sexuality into our faith.

Western Sexual Mysticism

Western Sexual Mysticism

Few people know of the long-standing traditions of sexual mysticism in the West. These traditions, unlike Hindu and Buddhist forms of Tantra, which were often distorted, commodified, and trivialized upon transmission to the modern West, have remained largely untouched. This is because they were entirely unknown.

Crisis in the Catholic Church

Crisis in the Catholic Church

The sexual abuse of children by priests has been called the “greatest crisis Catholicism has faced since the reformation.” The prevalence of clergy sexual abuse and its shocking cover-up by church officials is by now well known. Less well understood, however, is the crucial role played by civil lawsuits in bringing the scandal to

Circumcision

Circumcision

I hate most pork. Roast it, glaze it, do what you will, pig rarely sings to me like a dead chicken does. But pass me a strip of bacon and I’ll promise you the world. Seventeen years of Hebrew day school can only accomplish so much. Welcome to modern day Jewery; not so much a state of being as it is a state of mind. Or as the ultra orthodox

Drecho a Jes?

Derecho a Jesús

Conversiones sexuales y cristianas en el movimiento ex-gay

Mothers' Days

Mothers' Days

Jacqueline Taylor, the dean of DePaul University’s College of Communications, has written a new memoir. Waiting for the Call recounts her journey from the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher to lesbian mother of two girls, whom she adopted with her partner Carol. American Sexuality: In writing your memoir, what section

Sexo y el Cristiano Liberal

Sexo y el Cristiano Liberal

Debido a la situación de fundamentales en el ambiente, uno puede ser perdonado por pensar que el termino “Cristiano Liberal” es en si una contradicción. Después de todo, ¿cuando fue la última vez que usted prendió su radio en la estación local de radio de Cristianos liberales o prendió su televisor para ver un programa tele

Indonesia's Politics of Porn

Indonesia's Politics of Porn

What does a lace ceremonial blouse have to do with pornography?

Sex and the Liberal Christian

Sex and the Liberal Christian

Because of the saturation of fundamentalism over the airwaves, one could be forgiven for thinking that the term “liberal Christian” has an oxymoronic quality about it. After all, when was the last time you listened to the local liberal Christian radio station or channel surfed on the tube to watch a liberal Christian televangelist?

Validating All Christian Unions

Validating All Christian Unions

In the early years of my pastoral ministry, I was approached by one of my female deacons and asked to perform a marriage ceremony for her and her female partner. They were both faithful members of our church and felt it was right and proper to ask their pastor to marry them. This was the first time one of my Same Gender Loving couples asked

Mitzvah: A liberal Jewish look at human sexuality View Workflow

Mitzvah: A liberal Jewish look at human sexuality

Given the almost 4,000 years of Jewish history since Abraham, “Liberal Judaism,” generally understood as one of the attempts to reconcile Jewish tradition and modernity, is a relatively new phenomenon. The movement now known as Reform (or, internationally, Progressive) Judaism traces its origins to Germany less than 200 years ago.