“Sex and the Seminary: Wake Up and Smell the Incense”
Read a Jan. 9, 2009, article about the 2009 study and the author’s personal experience at a seminary.
Category: education
“More seminaries include training on sexuality issues says liberal religious group”
Read a Feb. 3, 2012, article on ChristianPost.com about the improvement seminaries have made when covering gender and sexuality issues.
“Seminaries and sex”
Read and watch a March 5, 2010, conversation between professors at seminary schools about their teachings on sexual preference and gender identity.
“Teaching Professional Sexual Ethics Across the Seminary Curriculum”
Read an April 2013 proposal by The United Methodist Church to assimilate gender and sexuality courses into its seminaries.
Laura Simmons
Laura Simmons is an associate professor of Christian ministries at George Fox Evangelical Seminary in Newburg, Ore. One of her areas of expertise is seminary education.
Naomi Sheindel Seidman
Naomi Sheindel Seidman is a professor of Jewish culture at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. She has written about Judaism and gender and Judaism and sexuality and is an expert in queer studies.
Julie Hayden
Julie Hayden teaches a course at Southern California Seminary, an evangelical school in El Cajon, titled “Ethics of Sexual Care and Human Sexuality.”
John Lantos
Dr. John Lantos is professor of pediatrics and associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation and author of The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care.
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Frank Gonzalez-Crussi was formerly head of laboratories at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital and professor of pathology at Northwestern Medical School. His books include On Being Born and Other Difficulties.