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Mutuality, Mystery, and Marriage: Love in the Song of Songs
By: Dawn Gentry | January 31, 2018
Regardless of its often-preached status through the centuries, I can count the number of sermons I have heard on this book on one hand.
A Biblical Example of a Sexually Healthy Woman for a World Where Unhealthy Sexuality Makes Headlines
By: Sara Barton | January 21, 2018
The Song is an example of lovers who talk about sex and intimacy in a healthy mutual exchange.
Bikinis, Bodies, And How We Talk About Modesty
By: Valerie Geer | October 16, 2017
It was a typical summer weekend service at our local church. I was perusing the bulletin announcements about our son’s upcoming youth group trip that included a water park excursion. Amidst the details for the trip was the following blurb instructing students what to bring:
Yielding Personal Authority in a Mutual-Partnership Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:4)
By: Ronald W. Pierce | July 23, 2017
Paul’s words in 1 Cor 7:4 constitute Scripture’s only mention of the common Greek word for “authority” (exousia) in clear reference to husbands and wives. What does his bold statement mean in its biblical context, and what does it say about Christian mutuality in marriage and singleness today?
Harry Was Wrong: Women and Men as Friends and Colleagues
By: Amy F. Davis Abdallah | July 23, 2017
While we should be cautious in our society of affairs, divorce, and casual sex, the time has come to look beyond our societal issues and ask whether that fear and suspicion among brothers and sisters is all we can hope for in the family of Christ.
Mutuality In the Bedroom: A Better Vision for Marital Sex
By: Edith Durojaiye | July 17, 2017
The church has long overemphasized male sexuality in marriage. In prioritizing the male sexual experience at the expense of the female sexual experience, the church has contributed significantly to gender inequality.
A Sexual Revolution Worth Fighting For
By: Rebecca Kotz | June 21, 2017
The Western sexual revolution brought renewed emphasis on consent, body affirmation/confidence, female pleasure, and women’s equal (and enthusiastic!) sexual participation in marriage. We should celebrate those gains. But it also brought a slew of toxic, oppressive ideas about female sexuality.
Nurturing Voyeurism, Vibrant Sexism, and Violence: Why We Can’t (Yet) Afford to Forget about Wild at Heart
By: Philip T. Duncan | January 31, 2017
In Wild at Heart we find a space in which sexism and male dominance are not only vibrant, they are nurtured. The pervasive dual-sexism in Wild at Heart draws from complex cultural norms recapitulating modernist ideals about gender and perpetuating consumeristic attitudes toward women.
Breaking the Silence: The Implications of Rape Culture for the Body of Christ
By: Rachel Asproth | June 7, 2016
I’ve avoided writing on rape culture for a while, because it’s a difficult issue to tackle from a Christian perspective. In my experience, Christian churches don’t often talk about power and consent, and even more rarely do they truly acknowledge the reach and implications of rape culture for the body of Christ.
4 Sexist Myths That The Church Should Reject
By: Rachel Asproth | May 11, 2016
We’ve all heard them. Stupid jokes and thoughtless comments. Sexist sayings and caricatures. From the pulpit, at the altar, in school, from boyfriends, girlfriends, teachers, parents, and friends. People pass off myths as facts and case-by-case examples as universal truth. Women are like this and men are like that. Women are obnoxious. Men are [...]