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Jared HaydenBibleFamilySexuality

No Longer Pitiable

We shouldn't say marriage is 'normative' and celibacy an aberration. What is normative is the faithful offering of oneself to God, regardless of vocation.

Rachel WelcherSexuality

Chastity as Worship

Rightly understood, chastity is a virtue practiced by the celibate and married alike—a sharply different idea than that promulgated by purity culture.

G. Connor SalterSinChurchSexuality

The Problematic Inklings

A number of the much loved Inklings dealt with sins that today might lead to their cancelation. How might that change the way we read them?

James DiddamsTechnologySexuality

The Human Costs of Pornography

If the sex industry cannot exist without victimization, the suffering of the vulnerable is indelibly tied up with the income of the 'successful.'

Zephram FosterMarriageSexuality

Marriage is a Thin Place

The church has long taught that there is a cosmic dimension to marriage.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyMarriageSexuality

Pandora, AI Girlfriends, and “Reborn” Babies

'Relationships' with AI girlfriends and 'reborn' babies will yield fruit—but whatever fruit that comes will be rotten and inhumane.

John SheltonTechnologySexuality

Talking About Sex in a Pornographic Culture

Even naming the evils of our age in the areas of sex and gender is made complex today because of how awash we are in the pornographic.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheorySexuality

Liberalism and the Sexual Revolution

While one can easily argue for connections between liberalism and the sexual revolution, the way those connections are named is enormously important.

Jessica MiskellyHistoryLiteratureSexuality

Unreachable Rapture: Rescuing Romance

The modern notion of "big romance" is both unrealistic and demeaning to one's partner. Our conception of eros needs to be rescued by agape.

Jake MeadorFamilyChurchMarriageSexuality

Inane Evangelical Gender Debates, Briefly Summarized

On why we never ask deeper questions and instead mostly yell at heavily bearded conservative men on Twitter for making creepy comments about yoga pants

Danielle TreweekSexuality

The Heavenly Significance of Singleness (and Marriage)

Though often forgotten in the modern church, many church fathers strongly believed that celibacy and virginity taught us something about the life to come.

Jake MeadorChurchGenderSexuality

Summarizing the PCA Committee Report on Human Sexuality

This piece is a brief summary of the PCA's AIC report on sexuality