Media

Op-eds and online essays

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• “The Dark Tales of the Christian Sex Addiction Industry" Slate Magazine March 23, 2021 

• “How Pleading ‘Sexual Addiction’ Protects Evangelical Men” (with Samuel Perry) Religion News Service March 19, 2021 

• "Sinning like a Man" Slate Magazine May 18, 2020

• “Online Pornography: A Religious Man's Cross to Bear” Gender & Society December 17, 2019

• “Nebraskans support LGBT rights” Lincoln Journal Star April 10, 2019

• “What I Learned From Conservative Evangelical Sex Message Boards” The Huffington Post December 12, 2018

• “Why White Evangelical Women Aren’t the Swing Voters They Sometimes Appear to Be” (with Amy McDowell) Re.Wire News November 2, 2018

• “Why the Christian right opposes pornography but still supports Trump” The Conversation April 5, 2018 (republished in Newsweek, Sojourners)

• “Nebraskans who support and oppose ‘religious freedom’ laws actually share many of the same values” (with Emily Kazyak) The Conversation February 28, 2018 (republished in Salon)

• “Gender, Sexual Politics, and the Religious Presidency of Mr. Trump” UC Press Blog August 28, 2017

• “Christian sex advice websites offer a peek into evangelical politics” The Conversation May 11, 2017 (re-published by Newsweek, Religion News Services, SF Gate, Tranzgendr, The Raw Story, Alternet)

• “Why Beth Moore Walked It Back: This Election Season, It’s Tough Being an Evangelical Woman” Religion Dispatches October 19, 2016

• “Q&A: Christians under Covers” UC Press Blog August 19, 2016

• “Bad Religion? Reactions to the Pulse Massacre” Girl w/ Pen June 22, 2016

• “The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin” Religion Dispatches January 26, 2016

• “Of the Unborn and Born Again: The Relationship between Religion and Abortion Politics” (co-authored with Alexa Trumpy) Girl w/ Pen December 16, 2015

• “Evangelicals After Same-Sex Marriage: Learning from Kinky Sex” Girl w/ Pen July 15, 2015

• “Feminists and Anti-Feminists: The Curious Case of Conservative Religious Women” Girl w/ Pen June 5, 2015

Media mentions and appearances

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• "Evangelicals and Sex Addiction" on Savage Lovecast, April 6, 2021

• The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius XM radio, March 25, 2021

• "How the Atlanta shooting shows the dangers of American evangelicalism's trademark 'purity culture." By Jina Moore Business Insider, March 20, 2021.

• "UNL Professor says SCOTUS LGBTQ Ruling Not End All." Nebraska Public Radio August 7, 2020

• "Majority of Nebraskans Support LGBT Non-Discrimination Workplace." Nebraska Public Radio April 28, 2019

• New Books Network Podcast, July 17, 2018.

• “Survey: Nebraskans Skeptical of Religious Freedom Laws.” Nebraska Public Radio June 6, 2018

• “Nebraskans react to High Court ruling on wedding cake case.” By Andrew Ozaki KETV, June 4, 2018

• “Nebraskans weigh in on religious freedom laws.” By Klair Acton 1011 News March 6, 2018

• “Religious freedom laws an all-American dispute researchers say.” By Leslie Reed Nebraska Today March 5, 2018

• “Did TBN Ministers Paul, Jan Crouch cover up 13-year old granddaughter’s rape allegation?” By Teri Sforza The Orange County Register May 3, 2017

• Kelsy Burke: “Oh, God! The Religious Right to Sexual Pleasure on Christian Sexuality Websites” Video of presentation to the Center for Right Wing Studies, University of California Berkeley March 1, 2017

• “Sinful or Saintly? Christians Navigate Sex Online” By Krissy Eliot California Magazine March 13, 2017

• Review of Christians under Covers by Peter Webster Reading Religion November 30, 2016

• “Sex, Christians, and School: New Professor Kelsy Burke explores her field” by Maddie Stuart The Daily Nebraskan September 1, 2016

• “Christian Couples Engaging in Kinky Sex, Including ‘Anal Play,’ Say It’s OK if It’s in Heterosexual Marriage, Researcher Finds” by Leonardo Blair The Christian Post August 26, 2016

• “How Advice Websites Reshape Christians’ Beliefs about Sex” by Leslie Reed Nebraska Today August 17, 2016

• “50 Shades of God: The Evangelical Christians into Kinky Sex” by Steven Blum Broadly July 25, 2016

• “Agency and Religion” Religion Bites Podcast August 20, 2015

• “Sex, Christians, and 50 Shades of Grey: How the Church Handles Kink” The Meisterpiece Podcast March 6, 2015

• “Sex, Sex Toys, and Christianity: Marketing ‘Intimacy Products’ for a Christian Audience” by Michael Shelton Psychology Today June 25, 2011