Editor's note: This is excerpted from Amy Frykholm's new book, "See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity." Christians love to give each other advice on sexuality. If you wander into any Christian bookstore or peruse Christian magazines, you’ll find lots of such advice. Likewise, the Internet is… [more]
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Why NYC’s sex education plan is an opportunity for the church
Sex is the new hot topic in New York City public schools. Starting this year, all middle and high school students are required to take sex education courses that will not only teach students how to properly use a condom, but also explain risky sexual behavior in graphic detail. Parents… [more]
Have we idolized monogamy?
American evangelical leaders are pretty clear about their opinion that the traditional view of marriage is in near-perfect alignment with what they regard as the Christian ideal. Considering monogamy is a central tenet of that view, it’s understandable if hackles might have been raised by a recent New York Times… [more]
What Christians can respect about SlutWalks
This Saturday, scores of scantily clad women (and some men, though I’m not sure how they’ll be clad) are scheduled to march through the streets of Detroit. Since I’ll just to happen to be in Detroit this Saturday, I’m planning on heading over and cheering them on. While I’m not… [more]
Are women called to not ‘let themselves go’?
A short time ago blogger Rachel Held Evans wrote an article titled “Thou Shalt Not Let Thyself Go?” She looked to Mark Driscoll, Dorothy Patterson and Martha Peace and pointed out how each one of them has at one time suggested that a woman has to be careful that she… [more]
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pcg Christianity never promises to 'protect us from abuse, manipulation, objectification and betrayal.' In fact, it promises that we will be abused, manipulated, HATED. But Jesus also promises that he has overcome such things, and that one day those things will be swept away.
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