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The Meaning of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Our culture is sex-crazed. That is no secret. But our culture is also deeply confused about sex and sexual ethics, often sending conflicting messages—at times promoting an “anything goes” attitude while at other times seeking to impose limits on sexual behavior. Unfortunately, Christians seem equally confused, and the church has tended to respond with simplistic answers. The reason for this...

an Anglican bishop in England, notes that in our relentless quest for pleasure, we use sex to dull the pain from loss, evil, and change. As a result we lack a clear moral framework for facing the issues. He writes: Having decreed that almost all sexual activity is good and right and commendable, we are all the more shrill about the one remaining taboo, pedophilia. It is as though all the moral indignation which ought to be spread more evenly and thoughtfully across many other spheres of activity
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