Second Semester Final Paper:
The Prayerotic Way:
A Holistic Christian Ethic for Sacred Sex Workers
This paper constructs a holistic Christian ethical framework for sex workers–one in which erotic healing becomes possible through consent-based power dynamics, radical inclusion and ritualized spiritual practices. Within a vision of a more sexually just future, this framework is understood and regarded as a morally good response to the sexual shame and spiritual harm left in the wake of colonial Christianity.
First Semester Final Sermon:
On sex workers in the Bible, the power of assumptions and ministry of secret-keeping
First Semester Final Paper:
Kink Forward:
The Future of Erotic Healing and
Pastoral Care in Church
Abstract: Kink practices offer significant contributions in the church/Christian spiritual communities as a way of demonstrating pastoral care and caring for the entire individual, including their sexuality/shame, as well as providing a safe space for embodied experiences of surrender. By taking such concepts out of the theoretical and into lived experiences facilitated by trained professionals (ie kink practitioners/sex workers), congregants are granted deeper understanding of themselves and a safe(r) space to explore parts of their sexuality — and surrender — that could ultimately bring them in closer relationship with God.