Faithful Sexuality

Human Stories about Holy Sexuality as the Beloved People of God

Gary L. Grafwallner

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781532697821
  9781532697838
• eBook ISBN:
  9781532697845
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ethics & Religion

Our sexuality is a key part of who we are and how we live as God's people. Many have yearned for a resource on this matter that is helpful and useful to lay people, seekers, and ministers. The stories included here come from singles, marrieds, gays, lesbians, parents, teens, young adults, and senior citizens, people of faith who struggle with their feelings and behavior around sexual matters. What honors God? What is acceptable to Jesus? How do the Scriptures inform and shape us? This is not a dogmatic or a denominational treatise but a minister's own personal and pastoral reflections on the implications of God's call in the life of faith. It's a chance to talk out loud with you and provide a resource for living and a catalyst for conversation on what it means to live in God's light and reflect God's love in a holy and hopeful community.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Just How Sexual Are You?
• Touching Appropriately
• Celibacy Is Not the Same as Being Single
• Lips Are Made for the Sport of It
• Unevenly Yoked or Married to a Non-Christian
• Single, Sexual, and Whole
• I am a Virgin
• Finding a Mate
• We’re a Couple, but We Are Not Married
• Is Engagement Outmoded?
• Abstinence Is an Option
• I Believe in Public Sex
• Coming Out
• Marriage Equality
• Romance after Marriage
• Making a Baby is Easy Sometimes
• Having an Affair Can Be Attractive and Costly
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People in the Church
• Sleeping with the Enemy
• Sex after Sixty
• Divorce—It’s Not over When It’s over
• Choosing to Marry Again
• Electing Not to Remarry
• A New Testament Appendix on Our Sexuality and Being God’s People
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author