Author: Alexis Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781073602377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A young Christian couple dedicates themselves to remain celibate until they are married. Stephan and Alexis walk readers through a difficult transition in their lives with a glimpse into the first 50 days of their Celibacy Journal. This journal is filled with the couple's struggles and triumphs, favorite scriptures, advice, and encouraging words suitable for anyone aspiring to follow God's will, regardless of age or relationship status. The journals are written from a male, female, and sometimes a joint perspective, chronicling each day as the calendar turns on yet another personal victory God has allowed the couple to complete. Various topics are covered throughout the book, including but not limited to: Vision, Focus and Discipline, External Stimuli, and Prayer. The Journals are easy reads to fulfill the couple's God-given purpose to encourage others and ultimately win souls!
Celibacy After Sex
Author: Alexis Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781073602377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A young Christian couple dedicates themselves to remain celibate until they are married. Stephan and Alexis walk readers through a difficult transition in their lives with a glimpse into the first 50 days of their Celibacy Journal. This journal is filled with the couple's struggles and triumphs, favorite scriptures, advice, and encouraging words suitable for anyone aspiring to follow God's will, regardless of age or relationship status. The journals are written from a male, female, and sometimes a joint perspective, chronicling each day as the calendar turns on yet another personal victory God has allowed the couple to complete. Various topics are covered throughout the book, including but not limited to: Vision, Focus and Discipline, External Stimuli, and Prayer. The Journals are easy reads to fulfill the couple's God-given purpose to encourage others and ultimately win souls!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781073602377
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A young Christian couple dedicates themselves to remain celibate until they are married. Stephan and Alexis walk readers through a difficult transition in their lives with a glimpse into the first 50 days of their Celibacy Journal. This journal is filled with the couple's struggles and triumphs, favorite scriptures, advice, and encouraging words suitable for anyone aspiring to follow God's will, regardless of age or relationship status. The journals are written from a male, female, and sometimes a joint perspective, chronicling each day as the calendar turns on yet another personal victory God has allowed the couple to complete. Various topics are covered throughout the book, including but not limited to: Vision, Focus and Discipline, External Stimuli, and Prayer. The Journals are easy reads to fulfill the couple's God-given purpose to encourage others and ultimately win souls!
A Secret World
Author: A.W. Richard Sipe
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134851413
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Secret World is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy. Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses its role in the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects of celibacy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134851413
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Secret World is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy. Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses its role in the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects of celibacy.
Celibacies
Author: Benjamin Kahan
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822377187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.
Girlhood
Author: Melissa Febos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys “Irreverent and original.” –New York Times “Magisterial.” –The New Yorker “An intoxicating writer.” –The Atlantic “A classic!” –Mary Karr “A true light in the dark.” –Stephanie Danler “An essential, heartbreaking project.” –Carmen Maria Machado A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572533
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys “Irreverent and original.” –New York Times “Magisterial.” –The New Yorker “An intoxicating writer.” –The Atlantic “A classic!” –Mary Karr “A true light in the dark.” –Stephanie Danler “An essential, heartbreaking project.” –Carmen Maria Machado A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
Chastened
Author: Hephzibah Anderson
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780099532156
Category : Chastity
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Like most women, Hephzibah wants to find love. But she has just turned thirty and she's single- again. Looking back on her twenties, the years seem a blur of parties and flings. Being footloose and fancy free was supposed to be fun, but somehow it kept ending in tears. Now she wonders- where was the romance? This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love. She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a dark-eyed musician, and encounters unexpected temptation back in London. Her quest has life-changing consequences when, after all, she discovers romance is still alive and well.
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780099532156
Category : Chastity
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Like most women, Hephzibah wants to find love. But she has just turned thirty and she's single- again. Looking back on her twenties, the years seem a blur of parties and flings. Being footloose and fancy free was supposed to be fun, but somehow it kept ending in tears. Now she wonders- where was the romance? This is a story about rediscovering romance. Forget the fly-by-night cads and unreturned calls, Hephzibah decides. Bring on old-fasioned flirting and the art of courtship. So, she takes a year off sex to find love. She sips cocktails in Manhattan with a dark-eyed musician, and encounters unexpected temptation back in London. Her quest has life-changing consequences when, after all, she discovers romance is still alive and well.
Freeing Celibacy
Author: Donald B. Cozzens
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814631607
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Cozzens explores priestly celibacy as a source of power and burden of obligation, as spiritual calling and gift of the Spirit. He affirms celibacy as a charism, a gift that is true for some, but only when received as a grace.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814631607
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Cozzens explores priestly celibacy as a source of power and burden of obligation, as spiritual calling and gift of the Spirit. He affirms celibacy as a charism, a gift that is true for some, but only when received as a grace.
Celibacy
Author: A. W. Richard Sipe
Publisher: Liguori Publications
ISBN: 9780892438747
Category : Celibacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celibacy explores the different questions about life, love and altruism through an insightful and revealing analysis of the essential elements of sexuality as they relate to celibacy. These include gender, orientation, degree of desire, object of excitation, developmental experiences, behaviors, relationships, patterns of integration, and identity.
Publisher: Liguori Publications
ISBN: 9780892438747
Category : Celibacy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Celibacy explores the different questions about life, love and altruism through an insightful and revealing analysis of the essential elements of sexuality as they relate to celibacy. These include gender, orientation, degree of desire, object of excitation, developmental experiences, behaviors, relationships, patterns of integration, and identity.
Costly Obedience
Author: Mark A. Yarhouse
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310521424
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Though we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today--one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay--gay and straight Christians alike. Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310521424
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Though we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today--one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay--gay and straight Christians alike. Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him.
Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood
Author: Lou A. Bordisso
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462038428
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The traditional Catholic Church views true celibacy as a gift from God. But todays reality paints a much different picture. In Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood, Lou A. Bordisso reviews the research on sexual activity and celibacy among Catholic priests. Featuring heart-wrenching, anonymous, and candid self-disclosures about the sexual behaviors of heterosexual, gay, and bisexual priests, Bordisso explores the meaning of celibacy in accordance with Roman Catholic Church teachings, doctrine, and canon law. Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood provides an honest and frank study of current perspectives on celibacy in light of priestly sexual behaviors. It allows for Roman Catholic priests to speak out in their own voices about their struggles and the conflicts they experience between celibacy and their sexual activities. At a time when most are disgusted with the sexual scandal coverups, smokescreens, and veil of secrecy provided by many Roman Catholic bishops and their apologists, Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood tells the truth and encourages us to think imaginatively and compassionately about an issue of crucial importance to the Roman Catholic Church at this moment in history.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781462038428
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The traditional Catholic Church views true celibacy as a gift from God. But todays reality paints a much different picture. In Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood, Lou A. Bordisso reviews the research on sexual activity and celibacy among Catholic priests. Featuring heart-wrenching, anonymous, and candid self-disclosures about the sexual behaviors of heterosexual, gay, and bisexual priests, Bordisso explores the meaning of celibacy in accordance with Roman Catholic Church teachings, doctrine, and canon law. Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood provides an honest and frank study of current perspectives on celibacy in light of priestly sexual behaviors. It allows for Roman Catholic priests to speak out in their own voices about their struggles and the conflicts they experience between celibacy and their sexual activities. At a time when most are disgusted with the sexual scandal coverups, smokescreens, and veil of secrecy provided by many Roman Catholic bishops and their apologists, Sex, Celibacy, and Priesthood tells the truth and encourages us to think imaginatively and compassionately about an issue of crucial importance to the Roman Catholic Church at this moment in history.
Rededication
Author: Armond E. Mosley
Publisher: Godzchild Publications
ISBN: 9781937095000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the biggest Achilles' heels that hamper the Christian walk for men and women is that of sexual sin. Sex and all things considered sexual plague us from the time we're old enough to have a crush on someone. Though innocent at first, if not tamed, our sexual urges have the ability to fully manifest themselves in ways that are detrimental spiritually, emotionally and most identifiably physically. "Rededication" takes us on that all too familiar journey that many of us have traveled. Beginning with the "first time," Armond Mosley shares with the reader some his most intimate moments while providing insight into the vexing reality that faith and sexuality create for a man. As he wrestles with stereotypes, stigmas and misplaced expectations, Armond eventually comes to a point of decision as a result of God's divine intervention. With somewhat of an ultimatum in hand, he chooses to yield to the Lord and commit to a life of celibacy until marriage. While it would appear that things would get easier from there, in actuality his journey had really just begun. For the remainder of the book, Armond invites us into his personal journey as a celibate man in his 20's, the sexual prime of his life. Though many discouraging moments along the way, Armond continues to faithfully press through until one day, he's just about had enough. And in that moment, in a most hopeless and vulnerable state, God shines a light on him and reveals to him "a woman of noble character, whose worth is far greater than rubies."
Publisher: Godzchild Publications
ISBN: 9781937095000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of the biggest Achilles' heels that hamper the Christian walk for men and women is that of sexual sin. Sex and all things considered sexual plague us from the time we're old enough to have a crush on someone. Though innocent at first, if not tamed, our sexual urges have the ability to fully manifest themselves in ways that are detrimental spiritually, emotionally and most identifiably physically. "Rededication" takes us on that all too familiar journey that many of us have traveled. Beginning with the "first time," Armond Mosley shares with the reader some his most intimate moments while providing insight into the vexing reality that faith and sexuality create for a man. As he wrestles with stereotypes, stigmas and misplaced expectations, Armond eventually comes to a point of decision as a result of God's divine intervention. With somewhat of an ultimatum in hand, he chooses to yield to the Lord and commit to a life of celibacy until marriage. While it would appear that things would get easier from there, in actuality his journey had really just begun. For the remainder of the book, Armond invites us into his personal journey as a celibate man in his 20's, the sexual prime of his life. Though many discouraging moments along the way, Armond continues to faithfully press through until one day, he's just about had enough. And in that moment, in a most hopeless and vulnerable state, God shines a light on him and reveals to him "a woman of noble character, whose worth is far greater than rubies."