The Link 6.12.09: NPR on Sex, Inner-City Transformation, and Patrick Henry...
1. My TEDS buddy Andrew Lisi recently wrote a thoughtful blog on a report by NPR about how sex is, for the younger generation, almost completely separated from any lasting connection or bond. (Photo:...
View ArticlePreaching on Sex: How?
Atlanta pastor Aaron Menikoff has some wise thoughts over at the 9Marks blog on a topic that many of us want to handle well but have little wisdom about: “I would be quite happy to preach about the...
View ArticleHunter Baker on Sex, Science, and the Left
Hunter Baker is a sharp dude out of Houston Baptist University who just published a piece on the Salvo magazine website entitled “Facts Evasion: When it Comes to Sex, the Left Hates Science.” I commend...
View ArticleIs the Bible Blind to Womanly Beauty?
Don’t know if you’ve followed this, but Tim Challies kicked up a bit of an Internet storm recently when he helpfully suggested that it was a good thing for Christian wives to give attention to their...
View ArticleLonely Love: Seeking Marriage Through the Internet
Is it right for Christians to find a spouse through the Internet? A recent story in the New Yorker leads to questions like this for committed evangelicals. “Looking for Someone” by Nick Paumgarten...
View ArticleLiterature Review: Reinke, DeWitt, Thoennes, Hiestand & Thomas, Wittmer
It’s time for a good ole’ fashioned literature roundup. Here are several books I’ve gotten recently that I think are worth my, and perhaps your, attention, if I may be so bold as to suggest possible...
View ArticleYour Neo-Pagan Neighbor and the Gospel
If you want to write a tsk-tsk piece on American culture, the present moment is your muse. It’s a bit bewildering, really, not only for an evangelical like myself but for most anyone who values...
View ArticleYou Are Not Your Sexuality
I just wrote a piece for The Federalist on a sex seminar at Colgate University on “consent” in sexual relationships. The event brought students together for late-night discussion of their sexual...
View ArticleHow “50 Shades of Grey” Harms Women & Jesus Saves Them
I just watched the Super Bowl. During a commercial break, I was horrified by the trailer for the film 50 Shades of Grey, which comes out soon. Seeing the trailer prompted a few thoughts. We commonly...
View ArticleGood and Bad Men: On Chris Kyle and Christian Grey
Andrew Walker and I just wrote a piece for The Federalist entitled “Chris Kyle, ‘Savages,’ And Moral Language In A Terrorist Age.” It engages Chris Kyle’s use of the term “savages” to describe...
View ArticleThe Sexual Revolution Created Donald Trump
It has been a mind-bending, head-spinning few weeks. We’ve heard and watched Donald Trump say abhorrent things about women; many folks, me included, responded to these comments. Trump has been rightly...
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