Category: Sex

Children, Culture Wars, and Christian Societies
All of the following things can be true:
Consent and Trust
From the NYT: For our first date, he took an Uber to my apartment through a winter storm. As the snow fell outside, we sat close on my couch while he talked touchingly about poetry. Two hours in, I was hoping...

Rosaria Butterfield and Evading the Issues
Jeremy Erickson: Rosaria Butterfield has not to my knowledge spoken recently about whether or not she continues to experience sexual temptation towards other women. People talk about her as a “former lesbian,” and as long as everything is defined in...

Why do so many people feel the need to lie about Cardinal McCarrick?
Here is Timothy Egan, a columnist writing in the New York Times:

Spiritual Friendship Pre-Conference Talks: Johanna Finegan
This talk from Johanna Finegan is well worth your time if you want to see a response from a Spiritual Friendship writer to much of the controversy surrounding the Revoice event.

A Brief Note on Paige Patterson’s Defenders
If we practice latitudinarianism either individually or corporately in an age like our own, we have removed our credibility before the non-Christian, post-Christian relativistic, skeptical, lost world. If you think that those who have rejected the plastic culture and are...

Demonic Rapaciousness
Moore on how capitalism and cultural decadence reinforce each other:

Hauerwas on the Politics of Sex
Hauerwas from “Sex in Public” (in which he gives the theological ethics version of Berry’s “Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community”):