Robyn J. Whitaker The biblical Christmas story, the one that announces the birth of Jesus, seems so sweet it can appear almost saccharine. It is so often told as a children’s story and a sentimental one at that. Yet it is deeply political and has been from the beginning. The […]
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From virgin births to purity movements: Christians and their problem with sex
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a doctrine that inextricably connected sex with sin. It has plagued the church ever since, doing untold damage […]