Minns Lectures

Register today for Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner's Minns Lectures on "The Bible and Sexuality" online at minnslectures.org/upcoming-lectures

In these Minns Lectures, Rev. Dr. Haffner will survey the Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures for their surprising and varied messages about s*xuality - sometimes troubling, often life-affirming, and always rich. Rather than presenting a single model of s*xual morality, these texts portray a wide range of relationships that still challenge our social, religious, and s*xual norms - s*x workers, eunuchs, women with multiple husbands, nonmonogamy, and adults living in more than a dozen forms of intimate relationships. In two lectures, Haffner emphasizes the necessity of messages of love and inclusion that surround, ground, and trouble these texts and their traditional reception.