February 10, 2010 Religion Dispatches
From Tiger Woods’ marital infidelity to same-sex marriage to the ‘Octomom,’ when sexuality issues dominate the headlines, there never seems to be a shortage of religious commentary—most of it from the right.
While conservative pastors preach against homosexuality, pre-marital sex, and abortion, in the nation’s more progressive pulpits, church leaders offer little or no guidance regarding human sexuality, leaving their flock without spiritual guidance as they grapple with these often wrenching issues in their private lives.
A new report by the progressive Religious Institute on Sexual Justice, Morality and Healing raises the alarm about this “disconnect between sexuality and religion in America.”... (more)
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Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and member of the Castro Writers’ Cooperative. She covered the refugee crisis in Lesbos, Greece in 2015 with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Jeanne was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times, and has been an editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review. She was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University and her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI’s The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus, Salon, and other publications.
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Jeanne Carstensen is a San Francisco based writer and member of the Castro Writers’ Cooperative. She covered the refugee crisis in Lesbos, Greece in 2015 with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Jeanne was executive managing editor of The Bay Citizen, which produced the Bay Area pages of the New York Times, and has been an editor at Salon, SFGate.com and the Whole Earth Review. She was a National Arts Journalism Program fellow at Columbia University and her work has appeared in The New York Times, PRI’s The World, Foreign Policy, Nautilus, Salon, and other publications.
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twitter: @jcarstensen
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