You are holding this book because you know something the people around you may never fully understand, which is that addiction is a fight for your life that happens an hour at a time. You know what it is to wake up with a plan and be overtaken by a craving by noon, and you know the particular loneliness of fighting something in secret. You may have prayed desperate prayers in parking lots, and you may have promised God 100 times that this would be the last time. However you arrived here, t...

God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology. Too often, dialogues on sexuality and gender devolve into the repetition of party lines and defensive postures, without considering the interdisciplinary body of scholarly research on this complex subject. This vo...