sexuality

This essay explores issues of meaning and divine providence in the context of Mary Doria Russell’s THE SPARROW.

It is my experience in pastoral care and counseling that the issue of sexual sin is common among both men and women. All too often people are accused, either rightly or wrongly, of sexual sin and the effects of society’s perception of these people can be quite damaging. Illicit sexual experiences, sexual assault, and false […]

In a city like Rome there is no shortage of glamorous prototypes or chilling reminders of our human condition – on Byzantine apses, in Romanesque side-chapels, even on Renaissance bridges spanning the Tiber we find men and women, saints usually, redeemed and transformed. Sometimes – more darkly and less frequently- we find them distressed and […]

It didn’t take a white-hot whirlwind To set me down for good on this smoking plain; I was turning hard already— tired of the edicts and injunctions, of following my husband’s righteous backside. I wanted to stay put. I had friends here, raw as unbeaten linen, but kind in their way. I stand facing the […]

{Theologian General’s Warning: This doctrine [of original sin] has been identified by certain members of the theological community as a contributor to the oppression and marginalization of women, and therefore as an inhibitor of the flourishing of creation as a whole. Should you continue to make use of this doctrine, please be aware of its threat […]