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December 2023

December 19, 2023

Christian college recovers after campus-wide Sex Week

The school held something called "Holy Sexuality Week." And it may have been even worse...

December 11, 2023

Masters of their domain

Evangelical 'accountability' turns faith into something that will never, ever do anything. It turns life...

October 2023

October 16, 2023

Sex and the end of the world

Dan Foster writes about "Rapture Anxiety: The Real-Life Effects of End-Times Fear." I've read a...

January 2023

January 16, 2023

Tasting and grazing

If your "ethics" doesn't have room for the Golden Rule, then it's probably not very...

November 2021

November 24, 2021

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse.

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Smart people saying smart things (12.30.20)

Be smart and give a listen to David Dark, Charlie Dates, Elizabeth Jemison, Rebecca Solnit,...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

I’m sorry, but this is a post about the sexual appetites of Jerry Falwell, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort. (And it’s every bit as unpleasant as that sounds.)

"She hates it when I do this" is always creepy. And it's often true.

May 2019

May 14, 2019

The T-shirt is fake. The harmful theology is ‘real.’

The hilarious viral church softball shirt is probably fake. But the clit-oblivious evangelical theology it...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

‘Hear him howling around your kitchen door’

"Watergate does not bother me" is a defiantly deplorable celebration of Nixon's politics of white...

October 2017

October 16, 2017

Conservatives Are Still Confused About Consent

French, like many other vocal "conservatives," doesn't understand what consent means and doesn't understand it's...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

White evangelicals cannot allow themselves to understand miscarriage

So evangelicals believe that most people die without ever being born. And for evangelical Christians,...

October 2016

October 17, 2016

Consent is necessary. This is not complicated.

Consent is necessary. This is the first, unavoidable aspect of any sexual ethics or ethical...

April 2016

April 14, 2016

Gravity always wins

Ted Cruz fought a losing legal battle in defense of a Texas ban on the...

April 11, 2016

If I could only give you everything you know I haven’t got

Marc Mauer of the Marshall Project offers an excellent summary of what we need to...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Educated men who are almost as ignorant about insurance as they are about human reproduction

Men who don't understand how sex works or what contraception does are now suing the...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Do surgeons wear latex gloves in Catholic hospitals?

I've heard and seen this claim endlessly repeated by apparently well-meaning white evangelicals for decades....

September 2015

September 03, 2015

‘Purity culture’ isn’t just a sex thing. It’s a do-nothing thing.

What then, is a good Christian to do in such a world? As little as...

September 02, 2015

The uncanny sex fiends of Christianity Today (No. 3)

Ed Stetzer's hasty guesstimate that 400 church leaders might possibly be resigning quickly morphed into...

September 01, 2015

The uncanny sex fiends of Christianity Today (No. 2)

There's no scandal here. The man isn't an apostate or a heretic, a betrayer, a...

September 01, 2015

The uncanny sex fiends of Christianity Today (No. 1)

To play up the claim that this is newsworthy, CT tries to portray this man's...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

Smart people saying smart things (8.11)

Yolanda Pierce on the "cauldron of proslavery ideology" that shaped American theology. LBJ on the...

June 2015

June 04, 2015

Never gonna fall for modern love: A personal testimony in The New York Times

But the main thing in that youth group -- the paramount, central thing -- was...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

The Duggar Family Scandal: A reader

Here's a round-up of some insightful commentary and reflection in response to the Josh Duggar...

May 27, 2015

Consent is a necessary prerequisite for any sexual ethic

To put this all another way, for social conservatives, marriage is necessary and sufficient for...

May 05, 2015

Happy cornbread anniversary

Franklin Graham rails against the X-Men as an "attempt to indoctrinate our young people" into...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly … in bed

All the rest of what we think of as ethics shouldn't stop at the bedroom...

October 29, 2014

Here’s that ‘Anything Goes’ rant about evangelical sexual ethics

The evangelical ethics guild seems to have fashioned this mandatory boilerplate in the 1960s or...

October 08, 2014

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry displays some sleazy ethics in his lecture on Christian ethics

Writing for The Week, Gobry's "Why so many Christians won't back down on gay marriage"...

June 2014

June 27, 2014

I try to describe it, can never succeed

Some Friday night links, including: chemtrails over Arizona, a political candidate's joyriding, the Nicholas brothers,...

June 05, 2014

I am always praying through my vanities

A few things, including: Commencement commences; Molly Worthen on the incredible shrinking Southern Baptist Convention;...