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Comments: 9

1. 1 | Ben

   

   April 27th, 2010 at 6:05 pm

   Oh soooo good! I was sorely disappointed to have missed seeing this live, but thanks to your post I was able to still partake.

   KJ–you are a beautiful representation and hopeful voice of what could be in a theology of sexuality. Thank you so much for your work and for sharing it with the world. The world continues to need your voice!

   Bravo!

2. 2 | Maryann

   

   April 27th, 2010 at 6:17 pm

   I’m so glad someone taped this. I wish you could have gone on and on!

3. 3 | Chad Loftis

   

   April 27th, 2010 at 6:29 pm

   Hey KJ,
   I’ve been lurking on your site for a while and thought it was time I introduced myself. So…I’m Chad. Phil Nellis is a friend of mine and he put me on to your site. I’m a counsellor living in Australia and working right now on my Masters in literature and writing – so I think a lot of our interests intersect.
   Great presentation. I’m deeply fascinated by the lack of any creativity or productive movement in evangelical sexual theology and I agree with Ben that you’re voice is important here. Evangelicals have a terrible habit of Christianising popular culture and mythology to the point of ceasing to engage in meaningful scriptural dialogue.
   On this subject I’ve been particularly interested in the vested interest that consumerism seems to have in maintaining the “forbidden fruit” conception of sexuality – so that it can continue to be commodified. Weirdly, the same meanings are being encoded around food (in sort of an infantile way). Evangelicals play right into this and, I think, often inadvertently support the porn industry and concepts that precipitate sexual violence.
   Anyway…
   Thanks for giving me some good stuff to think about every now and again. I’ve taken some of your movie suggestions too

   Chad

4. 4 | Kj

   

   April 27th, 2010 at 9:31 pm

   Hi Chad, thanks for lurking. I love your observations- really intersted in the role consumerism/commodification/objectification plays in what you’re describing.

   and do you have a blog I might lurk about as well?

5. 5 | Rebecca Swanson

   

   April 28th, 2010 at 2:20 pm

   I can’t wait to read this in its totality

6. 6 | Niegel

   

   May 3rd, 2010 at 9:46 am

   Please give this whole paper here in NYC! I want to hear more!

7. 7 | Lauren O.

   

   May 6th, 2010 at 1:04 pm

   Also de-lurking… I’m an SPU student and my friends and I have lately been talking about sexuality, feminism, the role of women in the church, and so forth… (and we are also all inveterate twilight haters, for the record).

   I found your paper incredibly interesting & it has been sparking a re-thinking of the messages about sexuality that I recieved from my evangelical, fundamentalist church…

   All that to say, thanks for contibuting so thoughtfully to the general conversation about these issues!

8. 8 | Jody

   

   May 6th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

   So glad to have been able to see this. You are remarkable, of course.

9. 9 | Chad Loftis

   

   May 8th, 2010 at 7:02 am

   Yeah, um, sorry. I do have a couple of blogs that are in hibernation but nothing to point you to right now. I just can’t squeeze it in between graduate work, full time job and three toddlers.
   Anyway, I’ll try to jump in occasionally and when I have some more time we might be able to dialogue at more length.

   chad