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      What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
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      A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist
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Mark D. Jordan

Mark D. Jordan is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. His books include The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (University of Chicago Press, 1997); The Ethics of Sex (Blackwell, 2002); and Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech (Beacon, 2003). His most recent books are Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault (Stanford 2015) and Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas (Fordham 2016).

(A)theologies, CultureJuly 23, 2017

Satan, Contributor to Teen Vogue‘s New “Sodomy” Section?

By Mark D. Jordan

It’s possible, I guess, that contracts are being signed in blood at Condé Nast headquarters. But I doubt it.

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Culture, Sexuality/GenderNovember 30, 2011

New York Times Columnist Peter Steinfels’ Letter To RD; With Author Response

By Mark D. Jordan

Mark D. Jordan’s recent RD op-ed garnered a response from Peter Steinfels, whose final New York Times column was referenced in the article. Here are both Steinfels’ letter, and Jordan’s response.

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(A)theologiesMarch 23, 2011

Who Wins When Bible is Blamed for Gay Bashing?

By Mark D. Jordan

When a young man invoked the Bible after murdering an older man for making sexual advances, a prominent gay activist wrote in agreement that the Bible does say to kill gays—implying that gays would be better off without religion.

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Sexuality/GenderDecember 15, 2010

Straightening Up Cardinal Newman

By Mark D. Jordan

Cardinal John Henry Newman, England’s most famous convert to Roman Catholicism, is on his way to sainthood. Is this why the Vatican is preparing to move his grave and separate him from the friend he requested to be buried with?

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(A)theologies, Culture, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJanuary 8, 2010

‘Traditional’ Christianity vs. ‘Liberals’? It’s Not That Simple

By Mark D. Jordan

From abortion to homosexuality to stem cells, you’ve heard time and again that what we are living through is a fight between religious conservatives and activist liberals. It’s not. It is a deep disagreement inside Christianity over what conserving faithfulness means.

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 14, 2009

Argue-by-Number: A Suggestion for the Church

By Mark D. Jordan

In which our columnist suggests that the Church adopt a scheme of numbering to refer to its various arguments against homosexuality. It would be more efficient, certainly, given that these arguments are continually invoked. But why the incessant repetition?

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(A)theologies, Sexuality/GenderJune 12, 2009

The Very Idea of “Gay Church”

By Mark D. Jordan

The impulse to minister to the homosexual community of L.A. led to a new kind of Christian church—the MCC—committed to inclusivity and undoing the old divisions incised across Christian history.

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(A)theologies, Politics/Law, Sexuality/GenderJune 11, 2009

Women’s Ordination, Round Two

By Mark D. Jordan

First you ordain women, then you consecrate them as bishops, and—look!—homosexual clergy want to come out of the closet: RD takes a calm look at the latest quarrel between the long-divorced Anglican Church and the Vatican…

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