God, You, & Sex: A Profound Mystery

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick takes post to catch up–emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness.
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Okay, I've read Ephesians 5:32 and Solomon's Song—I know there's much to be learned about the relationship between Christ and the Church from human marriage (and vice versa), but...I still feel squeamish about aspects of that. Nothing against Mr. White, but he's not Solomon, and I couldn't really get behind much of what he said on that topic (not that he was wrong, necessarily, I just couldn't agree with him).

But beyond that—it was refreshing to read actual positive teaching about human sexuality from a Christian perspective and not just a list of “No”s, “Don't Do That”s, and so on. Yes, the positive teaching necessitates some of the “Nope”s, and I have no problem with that, but it just seems that all the conservative Protestant world can come up with are the anti-whatever books.

In the end, I quite liked most of this and got something out of it.