By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read Sex and Fire I always like the analogy that compares sex to a fire. In the right context, like a fireplace, a fire is a beautiful thing. It’s warm, comforting, and purposeful. It sustains life. But, when a fire occurs outside of the right context, it’s destructive,…
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8 Ways to Strengthen Your Sex Life Together
By: Allie Joy Hudson 5 min. read The Sex List Sometime last year, my husband and I sat down at our kitchen table and wrote out our “sex list.” We have open talks about sex often, but writing this list gave us an opportunity to clearly express our expectations, hopes, and goals for our…
Sexual Integrity After “I Do”
Sexual Integrity After “I Do”: Continuing the Fight By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min. read What About After Marriage? “Lord, why won’t my struggle with lust just go away? Please take it from me!” This prayer is not just the prayer of a single man. Sexual struggles can be long-lasting and stubborn for both…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Three Ways for a Marriage to Heal After Porn
Rebuilding Trust By: Allie Joy Hudson Porn in My Life I remember the night my boyfriend told me about his porn addiction. I knew that he had struggled with porn in the past, but what he hadn’t told me was that he dragged it into our relationship. He watched porn for the first few…
Can I Watch Porn with my Spouse?
By: Allie Joy Hudson 4 min read Porn with my Spouse I recently read a story on Fight the New Drug’s website about a woman whose spouse had struggled with porn for years. Feeling the isolation and lack of trust between herself and her husband, she decided to try to watch porn with him….
Sex in Marriage Won’t Fix You
By: Shane James O’Neill 4 min read Once I Get Married… An article titled A Laptop Never Say No begins by stating the fear of competition a woman feels in relationships. In the opening paragraph the author says: “Once upon a time, a woman’s greatest fear was a good-looking … blonde. These days, her…