Sex and marriage aren’t the answers

I couldn’t tell you why, but starting around the age of eight, the thing I wanted most in the world was to be married. I became one of those brooding teenagers who wrote poems, overly dramatic letters to girls I pine for, and identified with every 90s rock song about love or broken hearts or […]

Rebel flags and same-sex marriage

American society has had an eventful few weeks regarding cultural debates and decisions, to put it mildly. A heinous act of evil that resulted in the tragic loss of life in Charleston, South Carolina has led us to question some of the vestiges of our past – namely, the continued flying of the battle flag […]

The disconnect with Christians on sexuality, Part III

There’s a huge problem with the Bible. The problem involves the way most Christians (Protestants in particular) approach it. We like to pretend that the scriptures are our primary source of authority for understanding God. In actuality, though, this is very seldom practiced. The Bible doesn’t come to any of us as a straight and […]

The disconnect with Christians on sexuality, Part II

One has to know the Christian paradigms of human identity and love in order to understand the Christian view of sexuality. If you admit ignorance or uncertainty on either of those issues you’re actually in better shape than most Christians, who don’t realize they’re woefully uninformed about their own system of belief. There is no […]

The disconnect with Christians on sexuality, Part I

What’s really missing in society is the ability for people who disagree to understand and empathize with each other. We vilify. We see this happening not only at the interpersonal level but at the corporate, political and international levels, as well. We identify an enemy and we attack, frankly because it’s the easiest thing to […]

Sex and what it means to be human

You don’t have to venture far to move from St. Augustine’s views on sex to his understanding of human nature. Both are tied into how he perceives the Fall, and there are problems in his thought that drastically impacted Christianity hundreds of years later. As helpful as Augustine’s questions and observations are regarding sex, they […]

The humbling and the emptying

Communication stinks, doesn’t it? How many problems are simply caused by either the inability of one person to accurately explain something to another or the other person’s inability to fully understand what the first person was trying to say? Or both? One of the frustrating things about words is that they are limited. We only […]