Reflections
Spring 2006

Sex and the Church

CONTENTS

• From the Dean's Desk

• From the Editor

• Sex as a Spiritual Exercise
  Daniel A. Helminiak

• Black Church Homophobia: What to Do About It?
  Kelly Brown Douglas

• Embracing the Erotic: The Church's Unfinished Sexual Revolution
  James B. Nelson

• It's About Sex...Not Homosexuality
  Dale B. Martin

• The Black Church and Sexuality
  Bishop John L. Selders

• Sexuality and Scripture: What Else Does the Bible Have to Say?
  Rev. Debra W. Haffner

• Neither Male nor Female: Understanding the Complexities of Sex and Gender
  Virginia Ramey Mollencott

• Celibacy as Charism
  Donald Cozzens

• The Church's "Sexual Crises": It's Not about Sex
  Marie M. Fortune

• Homosexuality and Dr. Dobson: What's at Stake in American Christianity?
  Ludger Viefhues-Bailey

• Tasting the Wine: The Nun, the filmmaker, and the Risk of Freedom
  Michael Bernard Kelly

• The Pomegranate
  Martha Serpas

• True Story Magazine
  Meredith Farmer Grubbs

• William Loader: Sexuality and the Jesus Position
  Timothy Luckritz Marquis

• Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions
  Christiana Peppard

• Harold W. Attridge, Publisher

• Jamie L. Manson, Editor

• Peter W. Johnson, Graphic Design, YaleRIS

• Maria Vaspasiano, Art Intern