What If 'Sex Week' Came to First Baptist Church?
On April 5-12, the University of Tennessee hosted “Sex Week,” organized by the student organization Sexual Empowerment and Awareness in Tennessee. The week’s activities, ranging from discussions on...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Christian 'Marriage Worship'
I’ve written before about the seemingly contrasting messages we offer to young people in church about sex and sexuality:Sex is dirty; save it for someone you marry someday.Umm, what? Granted, we walk a...
View ArticleMiley Cyrus, the VMAs, Sex, and Moral Outrage
I didn’t watch the Video Music Awards last night, but this morning I noticed that Miley Cyrus is getting all the attention.Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC’s Morning Joe gives voice to the moral outrage that...
View Article'Salaam, Love' Counters Stereotypes of Muslim Men
Oppressive. Boorish. Misogynist: Those are the popular images of Muslim men and how they treat women.But there’s more to it than that, thought Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, the editors of Love,...
View ArticleWhat Did Eve Want?
Is Eve all about sex? Or might she want something else? Our popular imagination turns Eve into a receptacle for one set of our fantasies. Our fixation on Eve’s sexuality causes us to overlook the...
View ArticleSex and the Never-Ending Christian Adolescence
I don’t know about young girls, but I know from experience that young boys obsess about sex.They crave it, fantasize about it, do everything in their meager power to obtain it, worry about their...
View ArticleThe Passion of Relisha Rudd
The first ominous sign that the Relisha Rudd case was slipping from the local Washington, D.C. imagination was when the police alert signs posted on the roads into the city had their messages changed,...
View Article'Kosher Lust': Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Says It's More Important Than Love
Celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, spiritual counselor to Michael Jackson, onetime Republican candidate for Congress, and author of the best-selling “Kosher Sex” and “Kosher Jesus,” has a new book for...
View ArticleGallup: Gay Sex, Divorce, Extramarital Sex Reach New Highs of 'Moral...
Americans are showing more tolerance for a range of behaviors, with sex between unmarried adults, medical research on stem cells from human embryos, and doctor-assisted suicide all showing record highs...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why We Want to Believe Jesus Was Married
Another day, another stunning blockbuster report that … Jesus was married! And to Mary Magdalene!The latest version of this meme comes from Simcha Jacobovici, an author and filmmaker who is famous for...
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