By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Exhortation – a High Call I love the challenge that the author of Hebrews gives to his readers (and to us today). Hebrews 10:24 tells us, “and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds.” The word that this short verse brings to my mind…
Is Porn Actually Bad?
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read. Is Porn the Problem? It’s true that we all use porn to hide. Most of us know that. Porn is a way we all medicate our pain, our loneliness, our boredom, anxiety, and depression; we use porn to get to bed, we use it to start our…
Jesus, Discipleship, and Sexual Integrity
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Jesus and Sex Jesus and His twelve disciples spent a whole lot of time walking together. As they moved across Israel preaching, teaching, and healing from city to city, I’m sure they all wore through some sandals. I love the image of Jesus walking, something so normal,…
Is Sexual Purity Even Possible — When our Leaders Fall
When Leaders Fall By: Hope Johnson 4 min. read Only Two Kinds of Men A friend once rolled her eyes at my seemingly naïve idealism about faithfulness in marriage. “There are two kinds of men, Hope,” she said. “Those who know how to hide they’re cheating, and those who don’t.” Men like the late…
The History of Pornography
The History of Pornography By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min. read Easy sex has been around since the dawn of humankind, and so has sex displayed through images. But modern pornography is an altogether new phenomenon. I recall the first time I was exposed to pornography. I was visiting some older friends…
The Relationship Between Pornography and Pedophilia
By: Andrew Scoles 5 min. read Sex Culture As our world continues to go down a path of subjective moral relativism and an era of sexual activity and deviance that has been escalating for decades, we’re going to continue to see the normalization of sexual immorality in our culture. I don’t need to tell…
The Effects of Pornography on Creativity and Imagination
By: Andrew Scoles Imagination and Creativity “For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” –C.S. Lewis Imagination is a tool of the mind that everyone has in some shape or form. It’s what helps us dream, plan, and do creative things. In forming us in His…
Simple Truths from Hugh Grant
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Unexpected Insight Hugh Grant is a British actor known for his romantic comedies as well as his charming and sarcastic personality. And Grant just turned sixty yesterday actually. So happy belated birthday, Hugh! He’s now the father of five, and he only began the fatherhood journey about…
Raquel Welch: Humanizing a Sex Icon
By: Shane James O’Neill 3-4 min. read Raquel Welch Raquel Welch — the sex icon of the 60’s and 70’s and ranked at no. 2 on the “Hottest Women of all Time” list — referred to our current historical moment as the “era of porn”. Welch is one of the few actresses who…
David Duchovny: Wrestling with Porn Addiction
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read David Duchovny’s Reputation David Duchovny is a Golden Globe-awarded actor known for playing FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on Californication. He also earned English degrees from two different Ivy League schools, authored three books, and is a singer, musician, songwriter, producer,…
Josh Radnor and Porn Culture
By Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read Josh Radnor Josh Radnor. Or, as many of us know him, Ted Mosby from How I Met Your Mother. Although we may love the child-like, and at times childish, idiosyncratic professor, there is more to Josh Radnor than our beloved and gullible Ted Mosby. Josh Radnor is…
Jason Castro: The Weight of Shame and the Hope of Freedom
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min. read Who is Jason Castro? Jason Castro is a singer, songwriter, and American Idol finalist. He is passionate about his love for Jesus and his family. He’s married and is now a father of four. But he also has a difficult past. Castro struggled with a porn addiction…
Emma Thompson: Mothering Through Pornography
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min. read Emma Thompson Emma Thomson. Sounds like Emma Watson, but different Brit and different Harry Potter Character. Emma Thompson is regarded as one of the greatest British actresses in history, playing in films such as Harry Potter, Love Actually, Nanny McPhee, Stranger Than Fiction, and Saving Mr. Banks. Emma Thompson has…
Sex Trafficking and Pornography: The Ties That Bind
By: Bill Hadley 3 min. read What Is Sex Trafficking? We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the prevalence of sex trafficking and pornography in our culture. In fact, today is World Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It’s encouraging that more people have been willing to have these difficult conversations about trafficking. To better inform ourselves,…
Russell Brand: From Sex Addict to Anti-Porn Activist
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min. read Who is Russell Brand? Russell Brand. What a weird dude. I say “weird” in the best possible way. Anyone who is truly themselves is going to be unique and thus weird. I think that’s a lot of the draw toward Russell — he is himself and folks…
Kirk Franklin: From Hypocrisy to Hope
By: Allie Joy Hudson 6 min. read Struggling in Silence For many of us, especially those of us who grew up in the Church, it can be easy to live a double life. We can act one way on Sunday mornings and then be a completely different person during the week. We can be outwardly…
Chris Rock: From Porn to Cheating
By: Shane James O’Neill Chris Rock and Cheating During a Netflix comedy special called Tambourine, Chris Rock shares how pornography destroyed his marriage with Malaak Compton-Rock. What began with porn led to sleeping with several other women. And then just like that, 18 years of marriage was shredded apart, with nothing to show for…
Candace Cameron Bure: Jesus, Marriage, and Sex
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min. read Who is Candace Cameron Bure? Candace Cameron Bure is an actress, producer, talk show panelist, author, wife, and mom of three. She is best known for her role as D.J. Tanner on Full House (and as D.J. Tanner-Fuller on Fuller House), for being a talk show host on…
Tiger Woods: Hard Lessons to Learn
By: Shane James O’Neill “There is a way that seems right to a person, but in the end it’s a road to death.” — Proverbs 16:25 The Tiger Woods Tiger Woods. The world’s greatest golfer, with more awards and fan adoration than most athletes in sports history. Truly, a remarkable record. The man is an icon…
Lamar Odom and His Journey to Freedom from Porn
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read Lamar Odom’s Radical CHANGE Lamar Odom is a former NBA player, Olympic athlete, reality TV star, and husband of a Kardashian. He’s also a former drug and porn addict with a radical past. Back in 2015, he had a near-death experience due to a drug overdose in a Las…
Kanye West, Jesus, and Porn
By: Shane James O’Neill Kanye West and Porn Two years ago during an interview, Jimmy Kimmel asked Kanye West if having daughters had changed the way he views women. This was a good question, considering Kayne had just released a song talking about his fear that his daughters will one day be objectified. After…
Rashida Jones and Pornography
By: Allie Joy Hudson 7 min. read Who is Rashida Jones? Rashida Jones is the child of two famous parents: Quincy Jones, a major record producer, and Peggy Lipton, an actress who was popular in the 1960s and 70s. Despite her background as a child of Hollywood, Rashida Jones has done a whole lot to…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Fight Against Pornography
Joseph Gordon-Levitt By: Shane James O’Neill Your Value? In talking about the way our culture lives, Joseph Gordon-Levitt remarks that we’re actually objectifying ourselves. This strikes me as insightful, because I’m so often told that pornography objectifies other people. I don’t often consider that treating other people as objects, means I’m treating myself as an object, as…
Terry Crews and His Journey Through Pornography
By: Allie Joy Hudson 6 min. read Who Is Terry Crews? “[P]ornography will never tell you the whole story. . . It’s killing you softly and it’s watching you bleed out and letting you and then stepping over your body and it’s over to the next guy or girl.” Terry Crews made this powerful statement…
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