Hello and welcome!
Overall, this site will function as my primary presence online. But the impetus to finally begin this centralized blog has come from a project I’ll be working on over the next few months.
Outside any particular academic context, I have some exploration I want to do on the topic of sexuality and ethics in a Christian context. I have a pile of books I’ve selected as a survey of the literature: some I read long ago and others I haven’t yet read. The books are:
Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian Theology by James Nelson
The Erotic Word: Sexuality, Spirituality and The Bible by David Carr
Feast of Our Lives: Re-Imaging Communion by June Goudey
Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality by Marvin Ellison
Word’s Body: An Incarnational Aesthetic of Interpretation by Alla Bozarth
Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God by Carter Heyward
Exquisite Desire: Religion, The Erotic, and the Song of Songs by Carey Ellen Walsh
Sex Texts from the Bible by Teresa Hornsby
I will be posting reflections here as I go. If anyone is interested in more direct interaction on any particular title, let me know and we can arrange something.
At the end of this reading and writing, I’ll create… something. It may be an academic paper, it may be a personal statement of sexual ethics. Hell, it may be a performance piece. I’m not sure yet which direction the creativity will flow, and I’m working on combining an academic focus with space to do some playful exploration. (This may also be some foundation-building to do further work in the area of BDSM and nonviolent ethics.)
I will keep you updated!
