By: Paul Quinn Have you ever kept something so hidden that you would die before revealing it? I have. I hated myself for looking at porn, but I couldn’t stop. I was living a double life. On the outside, I appeared to be a model of Christian virtue. On the inside, I was consumed…
Marriage, Sexual Purity, and Watching The Groom
By: Allie Kapus Looking at the Groom Have you ever noticed that at weddings people love to watch the groom’s reaction as the bride walks down the aisle? I always do this, and many of my friends have told me that they’re planning to do the same thing at my (upcoming!) wedding. Watching the…
Why You Hate Repentance
By: Shane James O’Neill Our Rights Repentance. What a dirty word. In the West, we’re all about independence. It’s one of our greatest values. Words like obey, submit, apologize, and repent, strike against our notions of independence. Autonomy is our entitlement, our privilege. We get to live however we want, and there’s hell to…
Publicly Violated or Boiled Alive: How Jesus Revolutionized Western Sexual Ethics
By: Shane James O’Neill In high school, my friends would give up porn for Lent. Let me revise that: in high school, my secular friends would give up porn for Lent. None of us were Christians so I was shocked when I first found out my friend-group would endeavor to kick porn every year…
Do You Want To Be Free?
By: Shane James O’Neill As we’ve touched on before, the O in P.R.O.V.E.N stand for Open and Honest. Walking in freedom means living in the light, which can be a terrifying thing — yet that’s where freedom is. As the writer of this particular article, it only makes sense to walk through the doors…
How Allie is Fighting for Sexual Purity as She Prepares for Marriage
By: Allie Joy Kapus Outwitting the Devil In one of his letters to the Church at Corinth, Paul charges the believers there to forgive and restore those who have sinned, “so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.” (2 Corinthians 2:11). Satan is crafty, observant, and…
5 Dead Porn Stars and the Value of Your Body
By: Shane James O’Neill Earlier this year, 5 porn stars died in the span of 3 months. All of their deaths were self-inflicted, through overdosing on drugs or suicide. But why do porn stars and other sex workers have a high suicide rate? They make good money and their job is to have as…
Burning Porn to the Ground
By: Shane James O’Neill Deuteronomy 7:3-4 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods … Loving My Lust Many times in the past I told myself that pornography and promiscuous…
How to Amputate Porn From Your Life
By: Shane James O’Neill An Adolescent Addiction I’ve struggled with pornography throughout the entirety of my adult life. If I’m being honest, I struggled with it even before then, before my body was able to respond to the images and intimacy before me. There are many things that have carried me along on my…
How to Trust God with Your (Sex) Life
By: Allie Joy Kapus The Harlot Stronghold The twenty-third chapter of the book of Isaiah prophesies the city of Tyre’s fall. Isaiah’s bleak description opens with images of wailing, shame, and restlessness. The people of Tyre “play the harlot” and turn to other godless nations for refuge rather than seeking after God with their…
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