On Doctrine: Seven Theses By George Sumner “Doctrine,” which means “teaching,” has both more general and more technical senses. The former (general) refers to what a group believes at a particular time. The latter (technical) carr... Read More...
Why We Need “Gay Christians” By Amber D. Noel The recent decision by Archbishop Foley Beach and the ACNA to officially discourage (or disallow) the phrase “gay Christian” distressed me deeply. I think this should especially distress som... Read More...
Wearing, Eating, Loving: The Haptics of Christ-Cloven Flesh By Matt Boulter Around 2014 I read a striking repudiation of “Christian family values.” This in itself is nothing surprising, what struck me was that this came from the pen of a Christian thinker. Arguing against the (at that time) “new atheists,” Terry Eag... Read More...
What’s Lust Got To Do With It?: When “Sex Fixation” and Racial Bias Meet By Pamela A. Lewis Let China sleep, for when she awakens the world will tremble. Although there has been disagreement as to whether Napoleon Bonaparte made this statement, it was often cited to describe the e... Read More...
Leaving and Cleaving: Purity and Power By Amber D. Noel As a Pentecostal-turned-Anglican, with some traditions in between, I’m someone who has lived in many church worlds, and I enjoy building bridges across contexts. But working in an Episcopal ... Read More...
Mapping the Terrain for Engagement on Human Sexuality Living in Love and Faith Christian Teaching about Human Identity, Sexuality and Marriage The Church of England Review by Oliver O’Donovan In the mid-twentieth century the Church of England used to attract admiration for its treatment of challenging con... Read More...
God, Sexuality, & Knots: Sarah Coakley’s théologie totale (a personal appropriation) Over the course of this extended discussion, did any of us change our mind on any of the issues? Even though we did see how gender politics, trinitarian theology, and our own experience of desire are all connected in a thorny knot, at the end of the day, no, we did not, any of us, change our mind on the issues at hand.
A Chance for Young Anglicans to Clear the Air How should young Anglicans respond to the battles they have inherited?
