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Love is simple,<\/span> says Reverend Paul Anthony Daniels, because \u201cin its most visceral form,\u201d it boils down to three things: spit, semen, and sweat. Ok, maybe four. Sometimes there is blood. \u201cTo share love in that way is so visceral.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have a confession, I tell Daniels. I have never been in love\u2014not in the Hallmark movie kind of way, at least\u2014but find myself craving it the older I get, so I\u2019m a little stunned to hear him describe it with such candor. You know, being a priest and all. God is in people, he says. Which means, God is also in sex.<\/p>\n

Daniels loves love<\/a>. He seeks it in everything he does, he tells me, but especially in people. It\u2019s part of his job as an Episcopal priest and a \u201cmediator of Christ\u2019s love in the world.\u201d Ceremonially, he is \u201ca steward of the sacraments\u2014the Eucharist, baptism, marriage, confirmation. I invite people into a relationship with God through those sacred ritual acts. But it\u2019s also more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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