Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech

Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech, is a thin but powerful collection of six lectures delivered by a prominent gay ethicist and historian of medieval studies “a few months into the ‘Catholic pedophile crisis. ’ Jordan, who teaches at Harvard Divinity School, exposes “how churches produce silence around sexual secrets that disrupt churchly power” (p. 10) and poignantly and persuasively calls for a new theological honesty about the always embodied nature of Christian eros or love.