Heidi Harris

HEIDI HARRIS {[email protected]} currently lives in Germany and teaches American studies at the University of Rostock. She received her graduate degree from Boston University in nineteenth-century American history, literature, and gender theology.

Meeting Donna Freitas: A Review of Sex and the Soul and an Interview

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 2

Returning from spring break in 2005, Dr. Donna Freitas, assistant professor of religion at St. Michael’s College, a small Roman Catholic school near Burlington, Vermont, witnessed an epiphany in her “Dating and Friendship” course. One by one, her students admitted to themselves and to each other their profound disappointment in the sexual culture of their school—the “hook-up culture.”

To the 78 Percent

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 2

“Have you ever acted as though you had a testimony of something you were still unsure of at church? Maybe you found yourself hoping that if you played the role, it would eventually feel real? Or have you ever said you believed something that you didn’t have a testimony of because you knew it was expected of you, and you were surrounded by people that wouldn’t hesitate to confirm their own witness of the same subject? Is this being dishonest?”