Pennsylvania Pro-choice Clergy Gather

Pennsylvania clergy, rabbis, ministers, chaplains, and seminarians gather to discuss "Abortion and Pastoral Care: The Stories We Tell and the Coaching We Need." With a rich and diverse panel clergy hear some of the...

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The Gift of Sexual Integrity

If we can accept that our bodies are good and beautiful and that pleasure is a God-given gift then how shall we live our sexual lives in a moral way? This program was for those who are confused about how to make sexual choices...

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Sex in the Pews: A Pastoral Care Seminar

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A pastoral seminar for Christian pastors and seminarians who want to build a body positive, sexually affirming and inclusive community of faith. The seminar includes Biblical study and theological reflection...

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PA Clergy Present Moral Clarity about Abortion at NOW Conference

Clergy women from Pennsylvania Clergy for Choice sponsored a panel for the Pennsylvania NOW conference called "Making Moral Decisions for Reproductive Freedom." The panel also included a staff member from the...

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PA Clergy tell Legislators They Must Count the Cost

 

Rev Dr Beverly Dale on behalf of PA Clergy for Choice

“We’ve Had Enough” Rally September 27, 2011

I stand here representing an interfaith coalition of over a hundred clergy, chaplains, rabbis and we have not been organized...

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Sex & the News Blog

AIDS Crisis: Finding God

On the occasion of commemorating World AIDS day I am remembering coming to Philadelphia in 1989 and walking through the AIDS quilt for the first time. It was at the Armory on Drexels’ campus that the AIDS crisis hit me...

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Clergy Addicted to Porn: Gasp!

So here is my question: Is it possible to get psychologically "addicted" to something if it is not wrong or sinful or shameful and if it is not connected to guilt in your mind? The Huffington Post says the rate of porn...

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Willful Ignorance: Sandusky, Paterno, Cain and Abu Ghraib

At first my mind could not possibly get around the idea that a thousand college students would rally on behalf of popular coach Joe Paterno, who knew about the sexual abuses perpetrated by one of his staff, Jerry Sandusky. I...

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Larry Flynt Understands Sex but not Morality

I didn't know we have already had a gay president (James Buchanan). I didn't know the president from Illinois where I was born and raised, Abraham Lincoln, liked to sleep with men nor did I know just how devious J Edgar...

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Uninvited Guests in the Bedroom?

The question on the index card read, “I have never had an orgasmic experience…I am Catholic and the church frowns upon masturbation. How do you recommend moving past that negativity?” I immediately had the vision of the Pope in...

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