Exploring God as Eros

Airing Thursday, 9 April 2015, 4:00 PM ET

Christianity has emphasized the shame and guilt of our sexual needs and desires so much that even those who are religious or Christian are still wonder if a person of faith can legitimately celebrate sexual pleasure and sexual freedom? But the Rev. Beverly Dale challenges all sex negativity with a different view of the Christian message. She says it is time to celebrate the sexual body!

About Guest Rev. Dr. Beverly Dale

The Rev. Dr. Beverly Dale, is an ordained Christian clergy in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and a graduate of Chicago Theological Seminary. She has spent most of her thirty years of ministry helping people reconnect their spirits and their bodies and confronting sex-negativity in the Christian church and wider culture. “Rev Bev” was an ecumenical campus minister at the University of Pennsylvania for over two decades where she became aware of the issues and struggles for young adults both in the ‘hook up culture’ and in the sexual minority communities. An artist and writer, she wrote, produced and performed in a one-woman show and is now completing her sexual & spiritual memoir, Sex Without Apology, Becoming a Sex-Positive Person of Faith in a Sex-Negative Culture. Her activism as a public theologian continues as the founder of the Incarnation Institute for Sex & Faith, a non-profit that teaches an inclusive, science-friendly, sex-positive Christianity.