Can Christianity Be Saved from Sexual Abuse? Purity Culture, Gender, and Sex
Jaimee van Gemerden’s powerful kōrero from our most recent event.
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Let’s Talk About [Marital] Sex, Baby! Marriage, Sex, and Perspective
Andrew Clark-Howard reflects on being freshly married, reading about sex in the Bible, and dealing with the hangovers of purity culture as a man.
Sexual Misconduct in the Church: The Tightrope of Grace and Accountability
Jaimee van Gemerden reflects on two recent stories of sexual misconduct in Christian organisations—Hillsong Church and Christianity Today—and the way they illustrate ongoing tensions between grace and accountability.
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby! A Personal Reflection on Sex-Talk and Sin
A contributor shares personally and vulnerably about the twisted ideas about sex that they imbued growing up and laments the way it distorted her understanding of sexuality as a Christian.
Let’s Talk about Purity Culture, Baby! Song of Songs and Female Desire
Against purity culture which shames female desire and bodies, Stephanie Chan 陳雪瑩 offers an interpretation of the Song of Songs which celebrates female longing and the physicality of sex and love.
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Let’s Talk about Sex [Toys], Baby! God, Pleasure, and Taboo
A contributor discusses complex, taboo-ridden world of sex toys, pleasure, and masturbation, seeking to explore an honest, realistic, scriptural view of the issues at hand.