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Redeeming Sex · Debra Hirsch

Sexuality and spirituality are two sides of the same coin.

Honest, grace-filled conversations about desire, holiness and belonging, for anyone who has found church the hardest place to tell the truth.

Debra Hirsch
Movemental

Deb Hirsch is one of 27 movement leaders publishing on Movemental.

About Movemental

Pull up a chair. Nothing you bring to this table is too shocking for God.

This is a place for the questions people usually save for the car park: about bodies and longing, about who is welcome, about whether holiness is something to fear or something that frees. You can bring your story. You can bring your humour too.

— Deb Hirsch

“All of us hobble into heaven by grace.”

Redeeming Sex, ch. 7

The questions we keep at the table

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Incarnational Sexuality and Holiness

Incarnational Sexuality and Holiness

Human sexuality is fundamentally a theological reality reflecting our deep longing to know and be known. Hirsch rejects the Gnostic dualism that treats the body as dirty and spirituality as disembodied, anchoring human sexuality in the miracle of the Incarnation where God took on flesh. A reader learns to see sexuality through the redemptive lens of Trinitarian love, moving beyond shame, legalistic behavior management, and culture war combat into holy, embodied wholeness.

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Radical Missional Hospitality and The Open Table

Radical Missional Hospitality and The Open Table

The table is the primary instrument of Jesus' mission, where barriers are dismantled and marginalized people encounter genuine love. Hirsch teaches leaders to practice an open-hearted, non-anxious presence that welcomes people regardless of their lifestyle, orientation, or doubts. A reader learns to cultivate homes and gatherings where outsiders become friends before they are asked to conform to communal beliefs, practicing grace before judgment.

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Untamed Discipleship

Untamed Discipleship

Following Jesus is an untamed adventure that refuses to be domesticized by religious consumerism or middle-class safety. Co-authored with Alan Hirsch, this pathway confronts the idols of comfort, respectability, and institutional maintenance that paralyze the Western church. A reader explores the wild, demanding nature of Christ's call, learning to cultivate apostolic resilience, cross cultural boundaries, and live as an active agent of God's missionary kingdom.

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Healing Relational Brokenness and Shame

Healing Relational Brokenness and Shame

True community cannot exist where people wear masks to hide their sexual wounds, relational traumas, and deep shame. Drawing from decades of pastoral counseling, Hirsch creates safe, sacred spaces where believers can speak their unspeakable struggles without fear of rejection. A reader learns to navigate complex relational brokenness, dismantle the power of shame through honest confession, and receive the restorative healing of Christ in authentic fellowship.

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Debra Hirsch
About Debra

Pastor, practitioner, and the one who says it out loud.

Debra Hirsch is the author of Redeeming Sex and co-author, with Alan Hirsch, of Untamed. A missional leader in Australia and the United States, she writes about a church that welcomes people who don’t fit.

Letters from the kitchen table.

Occasional, honest, never preachy.