Sexualities, gender, and sex series
Since I've begun working on my dissertation, I've not posted much to this site. But I keep receiving questions about the relationship between theology and contemporary understandings of sexuality and...
View ArticleWhen These Things Begin / The One by Whom Scandal Comes
My book review of two recently translated works by René Girard has now been published in the Journal of Religion. Read the review on my academia.edu page. Girard, René. When These Things Begin:...
View ArticleMarriage, Family, and Scripture
by Bryce E. Rich, Fr. Robert M. Arida, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, David Dunn, Maria McDowell, and Teva Regule Note: This piece was originally published on the Public Orthodoxy blog of the Orthodox...
View ArticleSunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
During my time at Brite, I was once asked to preach the sermon in chapel. I decided to draw from the readings being used that week in the Orthodox Church. The Brite ensemble learned several Orthodox...
View ArticleOrthodoxy, Sexuality, Gender: The State of the Conversation
Orthodoxy, Sexuality, Gender: The State of the Conversation Working Retreat for Orthodox LGBT Persons Sponsored by the European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups Helsinki, Finland 14 July 2018...
View ArticleMale, Female, and Transgender: Notes from Theological Anthropology
This piece was originally published in Sightings by the The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. Last month the New York Times reported that the Trump administration may seek...
View ArticleOrigins of Contemporary Orthodox Gender Essentialism
Gender essentialism in contemporary Orthodoxy has its roots in a variety of sources that were incorporated into nineteenth-century German Romanticism. These include the androgyne of Plato’s Symposium,...
View ArticleNature, Person, Gender: An Anthropological Postscript
Following Lossky’s metaphysics, sex and gender are not hypostatic (personal), but rather are characteristic of our common human nature. The post Nature, Person, Gender: An Anthropological Postscript...
View ArticleBridging Voices Project Links
A collection of links related to the Bridging Voices: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age project. The post Bridging Voices...
View ArticleGender Essentialism in Contemporary Orthodox Conversations on Homosexuality
Gender-essentialist interpretations of these Genesis passages are an exercise in question-begging: they assume that the essentialism modern readers point to is, indeed, a feature of the texts...
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