Sexuality and our Spiritual Life

The appreciation of life in the body includes embracing our maleness or our femaleness, and thus our sexuality, as a gift from God that helps to reveal his true nature. None of us exists in this world apart from being one gender or another, and in fact our existence as male and female is one of the most complete ways God has revealed the diverse aspects of his own being. “God created humankind in his image; . . . male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).

All of human experience is somehow connected, and all of it holds the possibility for abundant living, for the experience of…