By: Cale Baker 4 min read Pornography and Doubting Faith During my senior year in college, I went through a lengthy period of doubt, and I questioned a lot…
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Sexualized TV
4 minute read By: Allie Joy Hudson Parks and Rec The other day I was watching Parks and Rec, and one of the characters comments, “I’ve seen a LOT…
Why We Pursue Porn over Sex
3 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill The Porn Oscars WHy We Pursue porn Kevin D. Williamson describes how every year the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is packed…
Humans Are Made for Pleasure
4 minute read By: Shane James O’Neill A Land of Pleasure Did you know Eden means pleasure, even ecstasy? Some versions have more literally translated a verse like Genesis…
Interview with Former Porn Star Brittni De La Mora
Q&a with Brittni De La Mora Brittni De La Mora is a former porn star who is recorded to have made $30,000 a month in the adult entertainment industry. Even…
4 Questions to Ask Your Significant Other This Valentine’s Day
By: Shane James O’Neill It’s that time of year — good ol’ Valentine’s Day. In the midst of our sexualized culture, what does it look like to love well?…
2018, From Sex Trafficking to Pornography
By: Shane James O’Neill Every January all the big pornography organizations release their growth numbers. And every year the numbers double and then triple as the porn industry grows…
How to Find Purity This Christmas
By: Shane James O’Neill 3 min read All of Creation Waiting The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. John 1:9 We’re told that…
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,…
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…
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….
Christian Violence
By: Victor Stanely Jr. and Marcia Smith The Violent Christian Pacifist “Murder is a tough thing to digest, it’s a slow process, and I ain’t got nothin’ but time…” These…
7 Ways to Restore Postmodern Sexuality
By: Allie Joy Kapus HEart breaking Research I spent many hours during my junior and senior years of college researching postmodern sexuality. I pored over statistics, rates, and facts….
Broken Families and Broken Sexuality
By: Allie Joy Kapus Faithfulness and Suicide I read a short story two years ago that left a huge imprint on me. It’s called “To Room Nineteen” by Doris…
Sex on My Terms: What is Postmodern Sexuality?
By: Allie Joy Kapus Sex, By Myself What makes me feel good? What turns me on? What numbs my mind and helps me forget stress and life and other…
Uber and Strippers
By: Shane James O’Neill A Rough Night As a college student, I would sometimes drive Uber — I was able to work my own hours and work on my…
The Most Popular Pornography of 2017
By: Shane James O’Neill *READER DISCRETION ADVISED Pornhub In January, Pornhub, the largest pornographic website in the world, released their analytics from the 2017 year. The stats are harrowing….
Getting Singleness Right
By: Kyle Thorp Married to Myself “I firmly believe that each of us must first of all love ourselves . . .You can have a fairytale even without the…
Rethinking Singleness
By: Shane James O’Neill Misunderstanding If you’re single right now then you have the gift of singleness. Most of the time we think of ‘the gift of singleness’ as we…
Singleness
By Glenn Mosher vanity and expectations Oh how well I remember such moments as a brand new Christian at age 20 in college. Probably because we didn’t know any…
#MeToo
By: Lexie Smith What’s happening If you’ve been on social media this week, you will have seen your feed filled with posts including a hashtag #MeToo. It all came…
How Should Husbands Love Their Wives?
By: Ricky Bailey Understanding Culture Every culture has a narrative. I don’t just mean stories people use to try and make sense of life, but a script that has…
Passion and Destroying the Sacred
By: Shane James O’Neill What are you passionate about? If I asked you to name one thing you’re passionate about, could you? Maybe it’s something you do right now. Maybe…
Dating 100 People — A Parody on Western Date Culture
By: Shane James O’Neill Would it help you to know that porn is physiologically damaging and that you’re designed for one person? Let’s play this out and see if…