Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts

Questions about Sex, God and Snowboarding

Monday, November 14, 2011


Sometimes I think odd thoughts.  Today I was thinking about how my son loves snowboarding.  It is the same passion and desire I had as a figure skater. Remembering that love ...Read More

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Barely Touched - Sexuality and the Single Christian Adult

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

“I have nowhere to turn and I have myself all jumbled up inside.” Before me sat a 28 year old Christian woman who had been in a wonderful loving relationship for about a year Read More...

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The Enigma of Love

Friday, June 10, 2011


…do you know how much I love you? …do you know how grateful I am that you are in my life? …that you love me so? …that you are there when I call - always with an unwavering fierce love and undivided support?
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Living In ... and Safeguarding Abundance

Wednesday, August 25, 2010


A community economy is not an economy in which well-placed persons can make a 'killing'. It is an economy whose aim is generosity and a well-distributed and safeguarded abundance. - Wendell Berry
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Embracing Our Sexuality

Thursday, May 27, 2010


I was recently interviewed by Jennifer Bostrom for the blog spuchablog.wordpress.com - a blog for Campus Housing at Seattle Pacific University. The interview centered around how to cultivate a healthy sexuality integrating sexual beliefs/expression with a Christian faith. Here is the interview:
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Living Marriage - Living Faith

Friday, April 30, 2010


Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Gal 15:22

Marriage as an invitation into the narrative of God's love - how we respond to this invitation ... in the moment to moment ... exposes our narrative of faith.
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The Holy Erotic

Monday, February 22, 2010

I am sitting on the deck at my temporary Santa Barbara writer's retreat. The sun dances on my eyelids and fills my soul with warm light. Read More...

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How the Teachings of Sexual Purity Leads to Violence

Wednesday, December 9, 2009


"Tina, I don't know what to do. I'm supposed to be in the honeymoon phase of my marriage ... and we are both sexually miserable." Tears began to flow down her cheeks. Read More...

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Eros and the Force of God Within

Wednesday, November 4, 2009


Years ago life presented me with the experience of online dating ... not an experience for the faint of heart ... yet from which I learned a ton, experienced even more ... and somewhere far down the rabbit hole, met my beloved. Read More...

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America's Sexual Ethic

Wednesday, October 14, 2009


Silence ... just because it cannot be heard, does it have no effect? And ignorance ... no responsibility?


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Taken Hostage ... musings by Parker Palmer

Saturday, August 8, 2009

A week or so ago I basked on my favorite spot on Orcas Island ... a spot I have visited most years since I was 4. It was over 90 degrees (it is never that hot!) and I was sitting on the edge of Cascade Lake listening to the sound of life's laughter ...Read More...

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Desire … is it of God?

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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SEX!!! EDUCATION???

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

A Reader Question:

What would a healthy sex education look like inside a truly Christian paradigm? How do we teach our kids about sexuality when we believe our bodies and our sexual desires are a gift from God?
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The Body Is the Spirit Thickened

Friday, January 9, 2009

It was a cloudy day and I was riding on a ferry reading Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer. This is a book written by a surgeon who shares his surprise at how often sacred encounters emerged in his career as a physician. “The body is the spirit thickened.” As I read these words it was as if my whole being resounded “YES!” Read More...

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Shame and Sex in America

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Here is a question I received from a reader:
"When I look at culture in this country, I see a lot of shame, shame that is attached to sexuality in a fear-based and pathologizing fashion that doesn't seem to be as present in other cultures in the same way. Read More...

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A Failure of Imagination ...

Wednesday, August 6, 2008


In the documentary/movie “What the Bleep” an Amazon mythic tale is told of how the people could not see the a ship in their harbor because never in their collective experience had they ever seen anything like a ship. Read More...

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Made in the Image of God … sexually???

Tuesday, August 5, 2008


What does it mean to be made in the image of God when we think about our sexuality? It seems in order to answer this, I have to wonder again what sexuality is. Or what it is as it relates to the image of God. Read More...

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