Once upon a time, I was having a conversation with She Who Is More Learned Than I, and She made a comment about the prevalence of the language of “brokenness” these days–an abundance of use that has come at the expense of the language of “sin”. More recently, I have been working in two areas [...]
[Previous installments: Part 1, Part 2a, Part 2b] Since moving to San Francisco two years ago, I have had and/or overheard several times over the same conversation about sex. The story goes something like this. Context: San Francisco is the most single city in the U.S. Characters: people who want to have sex, but are [...]
Since putting up a couple of posts dealing with sex (the Ben Roethlisberger case and the article on women and pornography in the recent Christianity Today) I’ve had some opportunities to think and talk a bit more about the problems with sexuality in American culture and what a Christian alternative might look like. The first [...]
Before I digressed, I was talking about “Sports Fanatics: How Christians have succumbed to the sports culture–and what might be done about it” from the latest Christianity Today. The article makes some very good points about the dilemmas posed by professional sports. Of course, none of the data or incidents pointed up in the article [...]
Ok, you knew this was coming, right? One of the things that drove me to start reflecting a bit more critically on the issue of sexuality was watching a short video from some homosexual Christians who were reflecting on their experiences growing up in the church. Homosexuals growing up in the church frequently testify to [...]
