Showing posts with label sexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexuality. Show all posts

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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Walking the Talk …

Saturday, September 10, 2011

As I prepare for our next Couple’s Sacred Intimacy Retreat as well as a couple of upcoming talks, I find myself thinking about the eight couple’s that bravely ventured into the vulnerable world of intimacy at our last retreat in March. Read More...

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Happy New Year!

Saturday, January 1, 2011


Over the next few months I will be launching some new opportunities for individuals and couples interested in expanding sacred sexuality in their lives.Read More...

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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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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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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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Ruah ... is now

Sunday, September 20, 2009

I was reading the book Holy Eros by Whitehead and Whitehead the other day and came across the line: "Scholars today - social scientists as well as theologians - suggest that our hunger for contact with the foundational source of significance is part of what it means to be human." 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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Your Time To Live ...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Today as I walked around the lake near my home the chill in the air was softened by the sun’s rays reminding me that winter will in the end relent and spring will come. Read More...

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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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Creativity, Sexuality & Mystery

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

This mystic Jewish tale takes place in Jerusalem in roughly 500 BC – almost 200 years before Plato and Aristotle
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Three Blind Mice ... and Sex?

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Question from a reader:
“I often see groups in the media proposing the idea that sex addiction is rampant, that pregnancy rates are rising, and that generally speaking people are having sex at increasingly young ages, but are these facts? 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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The Fire Hose Life ...

Tuesday, August 26, 2008



Here was a question sent to me:

As someone who is interested in looking at sexuality from a sex-positive point of view, and marrying that component with the idea of personal responsibility, how can we as a society navigate sexuality without it trampling on the rights of others?

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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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Surprised by Joy ...

Monday, August 4, 2008


What is joy to you and when do you experience it?

Today was a day when joy spent the day bombarding my senses. Like a relentless mosquito and much more enjoyable, joy kept finding me. Read More...

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