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December 2015

December 03, 2015

Christian teaching on marriage as discrimination?

The Catholic church of Australia published a booklet about marriage, explaining why the institution is...

December 02, 2015

LCMS dissolves relationship with Boy Scouts

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has formally dissolved its Memorandum of Understanding with the Boy...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Nuns who pose as prostitutes to battle trafficking

An organization of religious sisters called Talitha Kum (Mark 5:41) is devoted to battling sex...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Catholic synod on family makes few changes

A synod of bishops has been meeting at the Vatican discussing "the family" and possible...

October 20, 2015

Sexual freedom for state control

In a discussion of Playboy Magazine's new policy of not publishing nude pictures, Mollie Hemingway...

October 14, 2015

Playboy to stop showing naked women

Playboy Magazine, which was a major player in the sexual revolution, has announced that it will...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Child abuse as cultural relativism

The New York Times has published a piece condemning the U.S. military for ignoring cases...

September 11, 2015

Covetousness and idolatry

In our Bible class last Sunday, in which we are studying the hymns of Martin...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

Sex doesn’t sell after all

"Sex sells," according to the conventional wisdom on Madison Avenue, a principle that has led...

August 25, 2015

Hackers enforcing morality?

So the Ashley Madison site, designed to hook up people who want to commit adultery,...

August 18, 2015

Legalizing “sex work” as “a profession like any other”

Amnesty International, the respected human rights group, has taken up a new cause: the legalization...

August 17, 2015

Now sexual orientation is seen as “fluid”

Now that gays have won the right to marry, the tune is changing. Instead of...

July 2015

July 20, 2015

Poll on gay marriage shows surprising results

An Associated Press poll on gay marriage shows a sharply and almost evenly-divided country when...

July 14, 2015

Christianity’s influence on marriage & the status of women

According to the "progressive narrative," Christianity and its view of marriage have oppressed women. But...

July 10, 2015

Biphobia against bisexuals

Another sexual minority is coming out of the closet: bisexuals--those with attractions both to the...

July 09, 2015

Gay marriage among the ancients

I've been hearing from gay marriage defenders that same-sex marriages are not an unprecedented cultural...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

“Voting Republican will not save us now”

Rod Dreher takes a bleak look at the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. It...

June 23, 2015

Post-gender Europe

Europe has gone further than the United States in embracing the new ideologies about sex,...

June 18, 2015

Paying for sex makes it not adultery?

A Japanese court, ruling against a wronged wife, has ruled that if a husband pays...

June 11, 2015

Evolution vs. liberalism

In the course of a discussion about an article by a feminist attacking transgendered folks...

June 05, 2015

Luther on sex

The younger generation, as has been said, always thinks that it has invented sex. And...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Between first sleep and second sleep

About two years ago, we posted First Sleep, Second Sleep, which became the 12th most-read...

May 26, 2015

New baptisms for the transgendered?

At a baptism, the baptized person is given a name. That's not all that happens,...

May 12, 2015

A masculinity crisis from porn & gaming

A leading psychologist is saying that pornography and video games are crippling young men in...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Don’t expect religious exemptions from gay laws

Some Christians have said that the way to accommodate the new pro-gay laws is to...

March 19, 2015

Presbyterians (USA) give strong endorsement for gay marriage

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has formally expanded its definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. ...

March 18, 2015

Male abortions & the end of “women’s issues”?

Feminism and gender politics in general may be coming apart, since gender identity is being...

March 05, 2015

Russell Brand attacks pornography

British comedian Russell Brand is a wild man, a former heroin addict and a blame-England-first...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

The LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM community

Wesleyan University in Connecticut has a residence hall devoted to a whole alphabet of sexual...

February 13, 2015

50 Shades of Black & White

Opening on St. Valentine's Day and hyped as the big date movie for the night...