If you're curious about what an articulate student of religious history who entered the Christian church as an adult has to say about Christian sexuality, you cannot do better than this.

One of the most candid, clear and fun books on Christian sexuality that I have read. While Winner has clearly done her theological homework, her writing is full of illustrative anecdotes and personal confession, rather than being heavy on quotation. Where she does reference a theologian (Chrysostom and Augustine come to mind, she's a religious history student, after all), she chooses her quotes well, doesn't break voice, and demonstrates why it is that we should care what someone a thousand years ago has to say about when, where, and why we have sex today. So, thanks, Lauren, for being so fair and free with your thoughts. I'm recommending this to a number of friends and hoping we'll be able to have some good conversations in the near future.