Minns Lectures

Starting Soon! Join our second Minns Lecture of 2026 on Zoom at the information below, or on-site at First Church in Boston!

Meeting ID: 914 7883 9055
https://uuma.zoom.us/j/91478839055

There's still time to register for tomorrow's Minns Lecture, "Christian Scriptures: Sexual Outsiders and the Love Ethic" from the series "Sexuality and the Bible." by Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner! Register now at minnslectures.org/upcoming-lectures.

Register today for the upcoming Minns Lecture on "The Bible and Sexuality!" At the first lecture, Rev. Haffner recommended that all attendees read the Gospel of Matthew, Paul's Letters to the Corinthians, and Paul's Letter to the Galatians before her second lecture "Christian Scriptures: Sexual Outsiders and the Love Ethic."

Tonight! Join online by Zoom or on-site at First Church in Boston for Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner's first lecture on The Bible and Sexuality titled "Hebrew Bible: Affirming Sexuality through Sacred Stories."

Register for the upcoming Minns Lecture series "The Bible and Sexuality" by Rev. Dr. Debra Haffner online at minnslectures.org/upcoming-lectures.

In 1996, at the beginning of her seminary studies, Rev. Dr. Debra W. Haffner published a widely disseminated article titled “The Good News: What the Bible Can Teach You About Sex.” Thirty years later, she returned to the Bible and rediscovered far more complex messages about s*xuality in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures. The texts had not changed—but over those thirty years, she had, as had scientific and cultural understandings about s*xuality. In two lectures, 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.

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.

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