Many evangelical women say they wouldn't touch Fifty Shades of Grey, often described as "mommy porn" because of its escapist appeal to working mothers and suburban housewives. But evangelical le ...

Too often, I fear the church is silent and bashful about sex. One reason, I purport, that youth look to society and friends for answers to questions is they fear it's taboo in religious settings, perhaps ...

Because of its severity and prevalence, female genital mutilation (FGM, or "cutting") is arguably one of the most important human rights issues in the world. It’s also become increasingly important i ...

Even historians and others who don’t claim Christianity personally are intrigued by the scrap of text recently discovered to contain, in Coptic, the sentence fragment: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife…’” ...

Whether wrestling with one the of non-heterosexual identities or the exigencies of birth control, the hidden costs of pornography, or the viability of chastity, 21st-century Christians have been confronted wit ...

I liked this film so much I've already seen it twice. "Moonrise Kingdom" is so good, in fact, I almost couldn't bring myself to write about it for fear of not doing it justice. ...

For those unfamiliar, there are (at least) two camps in the Christian conversation about gender roles, one of which we can call “egalitarian,” and the other calls itself “complementarian.” The implication of t ...

Pundits and politicians who opine about the so-called war on women ought to take note of the lawsuits filed Monday against the Department of Health and Human Services contraception mandate by 43 religious grou ...

We truly are uniquely and fearfully made (Ps 139:14), molded with God’s own hands and done so that we are each special to him. This morning I prayed naked. This exercise is part ...

I didn’t expect that deconstructing my sexual boundaries in the name of faith would cause me to develop boundaries. But these new ones aren’t oppressive, because they come from an understanding of myself. ...

I honestly don’t know how I’ve made it 33 years like this. It is certainly not for lack of wanting sex or trying to make myself available. But somehow, between God’s sometimes-firm resistance to me getting my ...

It’s been a mind-boggling fortnight at the Internet water cooler. Kony 2012. Mike Daisey’s dubious portrayal of Apple’s manufacturing practices abroad. Questions of whether the “Christian Movie Establishment” ...

Like a fallow field, sometimes it’s best to take what is left, turn it into the ground and allow it to be reborn into something entirely new. I wrote a piece last week about Pasto ...

Christians can’t have it both ways. We can’t use quasi-sexual sensationalism to promote our products, while also condemning the culture around us that does exactly the same thing. That, my friends, is hypocris ...

Disclaimer: These toys are wrapped up in a whole lot of complicated gender roll/motherhood/feminism issues…so take my snark with a grain of salt, folks. The Top 10 Googled Celeb ...

Marcus McCullogh “Sex Without Shame” (by Keith Graber Miller, September-October 2009) was brief, concise, and covered some of the major th ...

Michael Camp I applaud Keith Graber Miller’s call for a balanced sexual counterculture that exults sex-positivism in light of God’s gift o ...

Alice Hague I was slightly disappointed by the cover and headline article for the September-October issue (“6 Rules for Shameless Sex,” by ...

Rose Marie Berger This summer, the largest Lutheran and Episcopalian denominations in the U.S. voted for more complete inclusion of gay an ...

Dominic P. Scibilia Thanks for the timely and encouraging article by Keith Graber Miller, “Sex Without Shame” (September-October 2009). ...

Karol Svoboda (Letters, Redemption, Sexuality, Letters, Departments) Letters,Redemption,Sexuality ...

Ed Spivey Jr. This month’s cover story is about sex, and there is nothing I can add to the topic that would not violate the rules of my pa ...

Keith Graber Miller Somewhere between demonization of sex and the "sexual revolution," there is a middle way - a higher way. ...

Rose Marie Berger Jeannie Choi The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and ...

Ann Freeman Price Regarding the "Overheard" quote in the April 2007 issue: The continuing conversations in many denominations al ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez Poor Diet. In April, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski en ...

Celeste Kennel-Shank Since 2004, a diverse group of religious leaders, reproductive rights advocates, and medical professionals have met t ...

Rose Marie Berger The Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., released a report in May that revealed how a small group of wealthy funders a ...

Ched Myers A Bible study on welcoming the outsider. There have always been two Americas: that of rich and poor ...

Richard Rohr Male celibacy isn't the problem here. But for the Catholic Church to achieve a healthy system, things have to change. ...

Jim Rice The deepest guilt is the church's. Among the many sad notes that have been played in regard to t ...

Rose Marie Berger In Boston, more Catholic priests made the news as serial pedophiles. In California, two pastors got 4 million hits in a ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Teen pregnancy, abortion, and birth rates have decli ...

Andrew Schleicher Molly Marsh AIDS in Africa has reached epidemic proportions, and an A ...