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July 2021

July 07, 2021

God’s “Yes” and Long Flights

Some of my most revealing discussions happen on airplanes, during long flights. They usually begin...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

Pornifying Tolkien

TheOneRing.net reported recently that the talent agency in charge of hiring actors for Amazon’s upcoming prequel...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Did Purity Culture Overstate the Danger of Sin?

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

From Apology to Apostasy: Joshua Harris Joins His Critics

Joshua Harris, author of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” and inarguably the biggest name in so-called...

June 2019

June 18, 2019

What Do You Want? (Why We Just Can’t Kiss Purity Culture Goodbye)

There's a scene in the 2004 adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel, "The Notebook" in which...

January 2019

January 28, 2019

God Calls Masculinity ‘Very Good.’ Stop Caricaturing It.

A friend of mine on Facebook observed that there seems to be a new procedure...

October 2018

October 25, 2018

Inerrancy Gives the Bible the Power To Tell Us Things We Don’t Like

Forty is a biblically significant number. It’s usually the duration of time—in days or years—of...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

If You Don’t Want Kids, Don’t Have Sex (or Get Married)

(This piece was originally published at BreakPoint.)A British National Health Service commuter ad is making...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

The Idolatry-of-Children Fire Brigade

Writing at Christ and Pop Culture, Allison Barron makes the case that Christian couples who...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Humanae Vitae’s Vital Insight for Evangelicals

It’s become the norm for married couples the age of my wife and I to...

June 2018

June 05, 2018

Miss America Swimsuits Separate Traditionalist Men from Right-Wing Boys

The Miss America pageant (which will no longer be called a "pageant," but a "contest")...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

My Christian Sisters and the Pence Rule (Why Aimee Byrd Is Misreading Scripture)

Aimee Byrd from the Mortification of Spin podcast has written a new book challenging the...

March 2018

March 13, 2018

The Deep-Heavenly Symbolism of Sex

Christianity really is the answer key to the human experience. This is nowhere truer than...

February 2018

February 09, 2018

Be Afraid of Yourself: A Plea to Christian Leaders on Sexual Sin

Another prominent Christian leader has confessed to inappropriate behavior with two young women on his...

January 2018

January 13, 2018

Christians: Please Retire the Abortion-Juke

Not every conversation is about abortion.

January 08, 2018

Not Content with Consent: Re-Moralizing Sex

It begins to look very much as if consent, by its lonesome, is not a...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

From Bill Clinton to Roy Moore: How Character Stopped Counting for Evangelicals

It's obvious that the religious right of 2017, if transported back to 1997, could not...

November 19, 2017

A Poorly-Tuned Analogy: Why the Violinist Argument for Abortion Fails

It sounds airtight at first, but the violinist argument is actually filled with fatal holes.

November 02, 2017

‘It’s the Current Year!’ Is Not a Good Argument

You'll frequently hear people these days say, "It's 2017!" as an argument for abandoning some...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

The Media Myth of Casual Sex

The dirty little secret of the modern era is that the kind of behavior entertainment...

October 17, 2017

Some Slopes Really Are Slippery

Arguments deployed in support of each step in the sexual revolution often contain the premises...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Hugh Hefner’s Legacy Is Remaking Women in Man’s Image

More than anything else, Hefner will be remembered for remaking women to be as much...

September 08, 2017

Dear Liberals: Jesus Didn’t Write the Red Letters

The red letters carry neither greater authority nor firmer textual certainty than the black.

August 2017

August 23, 2017

No, ‘Game of Thrones’ Nudity Isn’t ‘Meat Sacrificed to Idols’

Ah yes, the excuses Christians come up with for watching "Game of Thrones."

August 10, 2017

On the Christian Bubble, and Being the Bad Guys

A recent episode of the Disney Channel cartoon show, "Doc McStuffins," which is aimed at...

June 2017

June 19, 2017

On Surrogacy, IVF, Evangelicals Are Dropping the Ball Again

Forty years ago, American evangelicals were defending or ignoring abortion. Today they're defending or ignoring...

June 06, 2017

In Defense of Purity Culture’s Tape Analogy

Sexual sin has lasting consequences.

May 2017

May 15, 2017

Purity Culture on Trial, Part 2: Love, Not License

Read part 1 here. Following my recent post on the victim culture that’s grown up...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Purity Culture on Trial, Part 1 – The Backlash to the Backlash

This week a friend sent me a piece by Rebecca Calhoun at Christ and Pop...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

People of the Internet: Stop Taking Everything Personally

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about what I call the "tyranny of exceptions."...