Christianity and Sexuality in the United States

Overcoming Sexuality Oppression in America

Sex. It is a concept that we have been “protected” from as kids and avoid using in our vocabulary as adults especially if you are not heterosexual. Sex is the thing we associate with dirty or tainted when talking about children who have been exposed too…

Behind the Pew

A Look at the Church Today…

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School Based Sexuality Programs: Cultivation of Power through Emotion

The relationship between emotions and political power is a messy one. A common viewpoint of many is that politics are performed through rationality. What do we associate with rationality? Objectivity — from an…

To Be Accepted

The car door closes, here we go again

I always hate coming here now,

I’ve started to hate Sundays altogether

I don’t belong here I tell myself lonesome in the pew

My Perspective on Islam and Sexuality

It was very interesting to grow up in a predominantly Christian neighborhood. All of my closest friends are Christian, and the Muslim friends I do have, I am only friends with because of that fact. I live behind a church, so I remember waking up on Sunday mornings…

The Voice of Oppression

I’m greeted with the words As salamu alaiykum, but do they really wish peace unto me. No matter where I turn I am faced with confrontation. I’m confronted with the lectures of the topics as I feel as though I am being targeted, and alienated. I feel alone, unwanted, and indifferent.

Individual Experience, Universal Silence

The Silence: Christianity and Homosexuality

An exploration of silence in the Christian space on…