“The contemporary church has a nasty habit of hiding the most from what we so desperately need the most. There are few issues in life that confront each of us multiple times a day like human sexuality. It is not just children and adolescents who need ‘the talk’ or singles who need to be ‘held accountable’; every person struggles with making sense of relationships, eros, and longings, emotional as well as physical. Every man and woman wrestles with the lies of sensualized culture while holding at bay the effects of pervasive isolation and intense loneliness. In Divine Sex Jonathan Grant guides us through this journey with wit, grace, and honesty while being both wholly theological and profoundly real. Let the conversation begin, for all of us.”—Chap Clark, professor of youth, family, and culture, Fuller Theological Seminary

“This is an exceptionally important and timely book. The gap between what passes for sexual and relational wisdom in contemporary culture and what actually makes for genuine human fulfillment has opened up so quickly and grown so wide that the lives of an entire generation are sliding headlong into frustration and despair. Grant addresses the issues directly yet sympathetically, countering contemporary folly with solid data, biblical wisdom, and grace. I wish it could be made mandatory reading for the entire millennial generation. If you care about someone between the ages of 15 and 35, give them this book!”—Craig M. Gay, professor of interdisciplinary studies, Regent College, Vancouver

“Who is better practiced at living and narrating the sexually embodied good news of relationship with God and other human beings than female and male disciples of the still-incarnate Jesus of Nazareth? Would that the church could be so described. Unfortunately, our experience tells a different story, and we have little help in discerning the cultural narratives that have so profoundly misshaped us. Thankfully, in Jonny Grant we have such a helper. With well-researched pastoral truth and grace, Grant moves us beyond denial and dissonance, deception, or despair. He compassionately exposes the powerful influences that orient us away from the heart of the Christian story by disordering our desires, explores the Christian reality of our shared life as sexual human beings in communion, and encourages us toward practices that embody the wholeness of cruciform life together—and he does so with candor, wisdom, and hope. With renewed gratitude for divine sex, I give thanks for Divine Sex!”—Cherith Nordling, associate professor of theology, Northern Seminary

“In the intensely sexualized culture of the secularized West, Grant’s thoughtful treatment is a valuable contribution to our understanding not just of our cultural conditioning but of God’s design and the true sexual liberation we can experience as followers of Jesus.”—Sam Metcalf, president, CRM-US, Fullerton, California

“This is a book that needed to be written. I pray that it will make its way into the hands of not only pastors and parents but also the wide array of those leaders who care for the body of Christ in the twenty-first century. It speaks both to those who are single and to those who are married. And it is a must-read for anyone working with young people today; it should be read by youth pastors and university chaplains as well as by student-life divisions at Christian colleges and universities. Absorbing Grant’s insight, analysis, and constructive argument should not only deepen how we are talking about sex and discipleship; it should also give us new intentionality about the church as a formative community, enabling us to live into a different script that is good news—that our sexual lives are hidden with Christ in God.”—James K. A. Smith (from the foreword)