In this episode, Marie Hause, Dianna Anderson, and Nate Craddock discuss the topic of sex and Christian holiness, with a focus on readings by John Piper and Rowan Williams.
Knowing
Why the topic is important and how sex and holiness are generally thought to be connected in Christianity
Reading
- John Piper’s blog post “Sex Belongs to Believers,” from Sept. 28, 2015
- Topics of discussion include joy in creation, the othering of the female, the exclusion of sex outside of heterosexual marriages between Christians, and Christian elitism
- Rowan Williams’s address “The Body’s Grace,” from 1989 (included in the anthology Our Bodies, Our Souls, & Ourselves, ed. Charles Hefling)
- Topics of discussion include the concepts of grace and desire, egalitarian relationships, same-sex relationships, and references to the feminist debate over pornography
- Further comments from panelists
Passing On
- Dianna Anderson, Damaged Goods: New Perspectives on Christian Purity
- James V. Brownson, Bible, Gender, Sexuality
- Brené Brown, Daring Greatly and her TED Talk on vulnerability
- The work of Sarah Moon and bell hooks
[Image: Gustav Klimt, Embrace [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]
