HeyJaredSpiritual Sexuality with Dr. Kelly Edmiston
This is a space where I write about the intersection between sexuality and spirituality, as well as other theological musings. With a pastor’s heart, I am interested in all people learning to live free from shame.
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Wait. What? Heather Thompson Day Got Arrested? (opens the original)
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Wait. What?! Heather Thompson Day got arrested?This is what I said to my friend Sean when he sent me the link.In keeping with trying to establish healthy rhythms, I spend days, sometimes weeks, away from the news. There is only so much rape and detaining immigrants, and wars terrorizing our world, and the ignorant hate speece coming out of the white house that I can take. So I’m often the last one to know about important things.The outrage I'm seeing online is the same chorus we've sung before:
When Church Isn't Safe for Trans Kids (opens the original)
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A Case Study That Shaped MeA few years ago, at a church out of state, I sat in a conference room with two parents, a youth pastor, and a lead pastor. I was in the middle of my doctoral research on how teens make decisison about sex. I was toying with the idea of writing a book. I set out on this research journey because of my own experience of becoming a mom. I was a youth pastor for 15 years but nothing prepared me for holding these tiny babies in my arms and realizing that God game me the job
3 Things Your Wife Wants To Hear From You In The Bedroom (opens the original)
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“I was thinking about you today.” (And then describe the specifics of what you thought and when and why and how.) Include all the spicy things. So many women get completely enveloped in a rom com, Off-Campus TV series, or some smut fiction novel. No judgement here. But then when it comes to their real life sex life, they are shut down. Men, you can allow your partnership to be the place of safety where beautiful descriptions and mutually beneficial fantasies are lived out. Make the real thing mo
What Waiting for Sex Makes Of Us (opens the original)
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Ben and I got engaged on the Nile River.We’d met in 2007 on a blind date my friend Lauren insisted on setting up, fell for each other fast, (Well, I fell for him fast. Who wouldn’t!?;) and then spent over a year loving each other from opposite sides of the world through late-night phone calls. Late night for me, that is. Early morning for him. This was before iPhones. So, for those young ones, this was BEFORE FaceTime, Zoom, or any other platform that allows you to easily access people. We email
Stand Guard Over Your Mind (opens the original)
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There’s an old science classroom demonstration where the teacher asks: how do you get all the air out of a drinking glass? Not by sucking it out with a straw — that barely makes a dent. You do it by submerging the glass in water. The water doesn’t negotiate with the air. It just floods in, and the air has nowhere left to go.Thanks for reading Spiritual Sexuality with Dr. Kelly Edmiston! This post is public so feel free to share it.<a class="button primary" href="https://kellyedmiston.substac
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