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You don’t have to look far in America today before realizing the intimate, and often times fraught, relationship between spirituality and sexuality. Be it cultural, communal, political or personal, our values are both shaped and informed by our faith, religiosity and spirituality—and these directly impact (our) perceptions of our sexual selves. Still, faith and sexuality are often seen as warring factions, instead of complementary. Becoming sexually literate includes recognizing how spiritual health connects to sexual well-being—creating a space to infuse faith into our sexuality, and sexuality into our faith.

Sexuality and Mourning in American Catholicism

Sexuality and Mourning in American Catholicism

It's not exactly breaking news that religious groups in the United States get het up over sex and gender. If it's not abortion, it's abstinence education, or stem-cell research, or gay marriage that gets them going. And while church people carry these concerns into the pubic square, they also fight about them with one another, and sometimes

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Sex, Faith and HIV

When it comes to fighting HIV, we have yet to make real connections in the faith community says Bishop Yvette Flunder.

NSRC’s Council on Faith

NSRC’s Council on Faith NSRC develops strategic, community-led initiatives aimed at improving people’s overall access to sexual health, well being and happiness—focusing on the intersections of race, gender, faith, age and ability. Sexual literacy Councils advise NSRC on professional training, curriculum, advocacy, policy and resource needs of their specific communities.

Western Sexual Mysticism

Western Sexual Mysticism

Few people know of the long-standing traditions of sexual mysticism in the West. These traditions, unlike Hindu and Buddhist forms of Tantra, which were often distorted, commodified, and trivialized upon transmission to the modern West, have remained largely untouched. This is because they were entirely unknown.

Crisis in the Catholic Church

Crisis in the Catholic Church

The sexual abuse of children by priests has been called the “greatest crisis Catholicism has faced since the reformation.” The prevalence of clergy sexual abuse and its shocking cover-up by church officials is by now well known. Less well understood, however, is the crucial role played by civil lawsuits in bringing the scandal to

Risky Lessons

Risky Lessons

It's been called "passionate", "engaging", and "intellectually thrilling". Jessica Fields' book Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality has just been released by Rutgers University Press.

Maria Luisa Espinoza

Cuando ten a solo 11 anos, Maria Luisa Espinoza Garc a, fue escogida por su madre para que la cuidara en sus d as de enfermedad

Circumcision

Circumcision

I hate most pork. Roast it, glaze it, do what you will, pig rarely sings to me like a dead chicken does. But pass me a strip of bacon and I’ll promise you the world. Seventeen years of Hebrew day school can only accomplish so much. Welcome to modern day Jewery; not so much a state of being as it is a state of mind. Or as the ultra orthodox

Drecho a Jes?

Derecho a Jesús

Conversiones sexuales y cristianas en el movimiento ex-gay

Mothers' Days

Mothers' Days

Jacqueline Taylor, the dean of DePaul University’s College of Communications, has written a new memoir. Waiting for the Call recounts her journey from the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher to lesbian mother of two girls, whom she adopted with her partner Carol. American Sexuality: In writing your memoir, what section