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February 26, 2013
Polygamy is biblical, is it therefore moral?
Polygamy is not an obscure feature in the Bible. It starts early, with Lamech, and...
February 10, 2013
The problem with evangelical sexual ethics is that we haven’t got any
Do we need a "new" Christian sexual ethic? Well, yes. But not because the old...
February 07, 2013
The revolution will be blogged: Evangelical women challenging purity culture
I don't have any special insight or commentary to add to the posts listed below,...
February 03, 2013
Money is necessary, but not sufficient
They think they're disagreeing when all along they're actually both saying parts of the same...
January 2013
January 22, 2013
Virginia clerk does his best in a bad situation
“I commend each of you that is coming forward today for your courage. I think...
January 10, 2013
Memory vs. Hobby Lobby: Evangelicals and contraception and why Denny Burk is not a conservative
This is a radical act, the act of remembering when the powers that be are...
January 09, 2013
Rules for Christian sex and rules about rules
Rules are a lousy way to get people to follow rules. This is why our...
October 2012
October 29, 2012
Using the threat of cancer to promote chastity is not ‘pro-life’
Maybe, just maybe, fear of disease isn't the optimal core of good character or the...
September 2012
September 19, 2012
Smart people saying smart things
Max S. Gordon: "Proud Americans, Be Who You Are" In other words, I can’t dismiss...
August 2012
August 19, 2012
Rep. Todd Akin exposes the horrific immorality of moralism
This post is about a tea-party Republican politician's understanding of sex, morality and rape. So...
August 12, 2012
Sex and theology
One of the massive and ongoing projects in Christian theology is the filtering out of...
July 2012
July 19, 2012
More on the Bad News Boors of the Gospel Coalition and Doug Wilson’s demented views on slavery
From Morgan Guyton: I could say a lot about this, but I don’t have the...
July 18, 2012
The men of the ‘Gospel Coalition’ really, really hate women
What in the name of all that is holy is wrong with these people? Before...
July 10, 2012
Golden Rule jokes and porpoise costumes
James McGrath and Hemant Mehta both point us to this cartoon, from Zach Weiner's wonderful...
July 08, 2012
Misogyny isn’t new; consent shouldn’t be confusing
Helen Lewis at the New Statesmen shows us "What online harassment looks like." It's an...
June 2012
June 07, 2012
A condemnation becomes a recommendation
In Western culture, at least since its Christian formation, there has been a perduring tendency...
February 2012
February 18, 2012
Don’t decoy, avoid or make void the topic
Scott Paeth: "Sex for Christians" From an evangelical perspective, of course, it would be argued...
February 05, 2012
Catholic bishops fight to deny health care to the 98 percent
The 98 percent, that is, of American Catholic women who use contraception. Some 98 percent...
January 2012
January 10, 2012
Rick Santorum vs. Pope Pius XI — one candidate, two encyclicals
I read two recent items about former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum that both turned out...
September 2011
September 27, 2011
Love in action
It's not easy to tell the difference between a survey reporting a change in behavior...
April 2011
April 25, 2011
You must remember this …
I tripped over a very strange sentence in The New York Times on Friday. It...
January 2009
January 26, 2009
Abstinence education
Two things I've never been able to figure out about "abstinence only" sex education. 1....
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