Elizabeth Stuart is Professor of Christian Theology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Theology at King Alfred's College, University College Winchester. She is an internationally acknowledged authority on theologies of sexuality and gende and has published extensively in the fields of feminist and queer theology. She edits the academic journal Theology and Sexuality. Adrian Thatcher is Professor of Applied Theology and Director of the Centre for Theology and Philosophy at the College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth.

• People of passion; passionate ethics; marriage; the body; power; gender; responses to the first approach; desire; spirituality; the Bible.