Fifty Shades, Twilight, and Teaching Young Women to Desire Abusers
Compared with nonreaders, females who read all three novels were more likely to report binge drinking in the last month and having five or more intercourse partners during their lifetime
“The Fifty Shades series of books (and the forthcoming movie) has been described as “mom porn” because of its popularity with older women. But the target audience for the books is young women between the ages of 18 and 25. The effect of targeting this young audience can be that it conditions them to accept abusive relationships... Continue Reading
Where College Football Is A Religion, And Religion Shapes College Football
Church attendance is on the decline through much of the US, but according to a “religion census” sponsored by the ASARB, eight states in the South saw increases between 2000 and 2010
“In this part of America, college football fits somewhere between pastime and obsession, and like church, it is more than a weekend activity. Nothing says more about a Southerner than the team he cheers on Saturdays and the church he attends on Sundays — “the two things we love the most,” says author Chad Gibbs,... Continue Reading
Homosexuality and the Church
Five points from Sam Allberry’s book, Is God Anti-Gay?
These are great pastoral notes for churches who want to show grace and love to those who struggle with same-sex attraction. Churches should never become so focused on the biological family and/or cultural ideas of masculinity and femininity that they end up being legalistic and inward focused rather than gospel centered and outward focused. ... Continue Reading
Less than Human: A Review: ‘Freedom from Speech’ by Greg Lukianoff
By losing the freedom to reason with each other over difficult issues, we are becoming, in fact, less than human
Liberals, in general, are motivated fundamentally by empathy. While conservatives take their moral norms from a variety of places, such as traditional values and religion, “progressive morality is largely one-dimensional, driven primarily by the care ethic,” Lukianoff says. And because liberals just want people be happy and comfortable, he argues, they attack speech they deem... Continue Reading
Distortion in the Church
Liberalism is alive and well within our Evangelical churches.
The goal of the Christian Left is to undermine the authority of the Bible by painting inconsistencies in Scripture, which they hope will breed confusion and, at times, doubt. Once the lines of truth are blurred, young Evangelicals start to reconcile their faith with liberal political platforms like same-sex marriage, taxpayer funded abortions and contraception,... Continue Reading
Lloyd-Jones on Scandalous Grace that Isn’t Cheap
There is a fatal tendency to put up law and grace as antitheses in the wrong sense.
Is it not true to say of many of us that in actual practice our view of the doctrine of grace is such that we scarcely ever take the plain teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ seriously? We have so emphasized the teaching that all is of grace and that we ought not to try... Continue Reading
Dear PBS, I don’t think there’s a compassionate way to murder infants
PBS has decided to air a 90 minute pro-late term abortion propaganda piece
Look behind those abortion clinics, PBS. Whose bodies are in the hazardous waste containers? Whose corpses are incinerated by the thousands? Whose heart is injected with poison? Whose spinal cord is snipped? The abortionists? Or the babies? You answer that question, and then tell me who needs the humanizing around here. Dear PBS, This... Continue Reading
A Review of Bird’s “Evangelical Theology”
I’m glad I own Bird’s Systematic Theology, and think it is a helpful contribution to theology, even though it has some serious weaknesses of which our readers should be aware.
I do have notable concerns about several theological positions Bird advocates. First, and most importantly, Bird departs from historic Reformed theology in the areas of covenant and justification. Major red flags here: he rejects the covenant of works and disagrees with imputation in justification (he likes the term “incorporation” – i.e. union with Christ). Second,... Continue Reading
Spirit Guides
There are two things, above all, that students want: that their professors challenge them and that they care about them.
My years in the classroom, as well as my conversations with young people about their college experience, have convinced me there are two things, above all, that students want from their professors. Not, as people commonly believe, to entertain them in class and hand out easy A’s. That’s what they retreat to, once they see... Continue Reading
Sex, Dating, and Relationships
A review of a book that discusses the whole problem with contemporary dating and attempts to offer a solution.
Sex is about the gospel, just like every other thing in life. That’s why these two authors can say, “[God] desires your sexual satisfaction more than you ever will, for through the proper expression of your sexuality, both you and the world will have a window through which to see the window of the gospel”... Continue Reading
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