Gender and Sexuality in the Pastoral Encounter

Abstract

At the ‘Embodied Ministry: Gender, Sexuality and Formation’ conference at which the articles in this special issue were delivered, three people in active ministry in different denominations — United Reformed Church, Metropolitan Community Church and Roman Catholic — were invited to take part in a panel discussion on gender and sexuality in the pastoral encounter. Their remarks were originally delivered in this conversational context. Martin Pendergast chaired this panel discussion.

Keywords:

• sexuality
• pastoral care
• vulnerability
• risk
• intimacy

Notes

1 This is a feminist strategy articulated by Nelle Morton (2001: 178 n. 1, 209–10).