(For all other podcast platforms: The Naked Gospel podcast) Episode Summary: Nancy Pearcey joins us to discuss current issues about sexuality. Nancy Pearcey is a professor and author who is known for engaging the most difficult cultural issues. She joins us to discuss a recent book called Love Thy Body: Answering…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
What’s a Healthy Perspective of Porn?
By: Allie Joy Hudson 3 min. read Children Exposed According to a 2016 British study, 94% of 14-year-olds have been exposed to explicit pornographic material online. The average age of children first being exposed to porn is getting younger and younger. (I have seen reports ranging from age eleven to age eight.) Many describe…
Depression, COVID-19, and Pornography
By: Allie Joy Hudson 6 min. read Quarantine and Depression I can’t tell you how many times I pick up my phone when I’m feeling depressed. I hate it, but it’s almost become a reflex to open up Facebook or Instagram and scroll when I feel myself shutting down. Especially with so many of us…
Loneliness and Pornography
Lonely By: Cale Baker 4 min read Lonely: A Public Health Crisis Some have declared loneliness a public health crisis, and not only does it trigger engagement with pornography, but it’s also not good for our physical health. An article in The Guardian highlights that chronic loneliness is worse than being obese and as…
Trapped in Sexual Sin
5 min read By: Cale Baker Trapped in Sexual Sin We often feel that our addiction to porn is too much to overcome. I know I’ve reached that despairing moment within addiction where I started to believe that Jesus’s power wasn’t enough to help me. The baggage surrounding my sexual sin seemed too complex…
Dating a Recovering Porn Addict
By: Lexie Smith How We Met Dating in today’s world is tough. Especially when you graduated with a degree in psychology and did a bunch of research on how porn affects the brain. Add that with a decade of sexual abuse as a child and it’s a miracle I would even consider dating at…