Sexual Revolution

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The Briefing 05-01-13

1. In the War Over Christianity, Orthodoxy Is Winning Viewpoint: In the War Over Christianity, Orthodoxy Is Winning, Time (Mary Eberstadt) 2. Sexual Messaging and...

  • Abstinence
  • Audio
  • birth control
  • Liberalism
  • Morning After Pill
  • Orthodoxy
  • Pornography
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The Briefing 04-03-13

Story 1 - Living in a Violent World Death Penalty Sought in Colorado Shooting Trial, Wall Street Journal (Donna Bryson and Ashby Jones) Japan Shifts...

  • Audio
  • Death Penalty
  • Hamas
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Justice
  • Pacifism
  • Same-Sex Marriage
  • Scotland
  • Teen Pregnancy
  • violence
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The Ugly American — Sex Trafficking and Our National Humiliation

The sexual revolution of the last several decades has transformed any public conversation about sex and sexuality. The revolutionaries directed their attention to the dismantling...Read this essay →
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“Now it is the Other Way Around” — The Moral Revolution in Full View

This decision serves as yet another sign of how swiftly the moral revolution is happening all around us.Read this essay →
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Where Did I Come From? – It’s No Longer a Simple Question

It is as if we are now living on a new planet — one in which all the natural boundaries of sex and reproduction have…Read this essay →
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So, Why Is Incest Wrong?

There are certain questions now pressed upon us that previous generations would never believe could be asked. One of these is thrust upon us by...
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Who Needs Marriage? TIME Asked the Question — Do You Have an Answer?

Who needs marriage? I do. You do. We all do — and for reasons far more fundamental than can be explained “in purely practical terms.”Read this essay →
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A Roommate is a Roommate? — Coming Soon to a Campus Near You

The rise of co-ed dorms is the inevitable result of a breakdown in all rationality about sex, gender, and sexuality. In this case, the movement…Read this essay →
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Mandatory Sex Education for Ten-Year-Olds? Yours?

The International Planned Parenthood Federation [IPPF] has a plan for your child -- and for every young person on earth. The influential group is calling...Read this essay →
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Hijacking the Brain — How Pornography Works

We are fast becoming the pornographic society. Over the course of the last decade, explicitly sexual images have crept into advertising, marketing, and virtually every...Read this essay →
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Falling Flat: The Unethical Case for Monogamy

Is faithfulness in marriage a good thing, or has monogamy become overrated?  The Los Angles Times has recently reported on the state of monogamy in...Read this essay →
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Morality Defined by Hollywood

Moral hypocrisy is a terrible thing, but in the case of child rape, special disgust is added to the tragedy.  Roman Polanski has been arrested...Read this essay →
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Morality, Hollywood Style

Moral hypocrisy is an ugly thing, regardless of its source. Hypocrisy is a moral trap of constant threat -- the price of holding any moral...Read this essay →
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A Quiet Circumvention of Morality — Women in Combat

Far outside the view of the American public, women in uniform are now breaking the "combat barrier" and fighting side by side with male soldiers....Read this essay →
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Polyamory: One Relationship? Two? How Many Faithful Relationships for You?

The idle of choice in relationships is destroying faithfulness between couples. Polyamory is the practice of sexual relationships between many couples who are faithful only...Read this essay →
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Polyamory — The Perfectly Plural Postmodern Condition

Once a sexual revolution is set loose, it inevitably runs its course through the culture.  While the current flashpoints of cultural conflict are focused on...Read this essay →
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Violence in Vanity Fair: The Versace Murder

"I'd like to live forever." Thus reflected fashion designer extraordinaire Gianni Versace to a recent biographer. "If there's one thing I'm afraid of," he continued,...Read this essay →
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Talking Ourselves to Death: The Sexual Revolution Marches On

Clear your calendar and call your friends - it's Sexual Awareness Week in Britain. Actually, this is the very first Sexual Awareness Week in British...Read this essay →
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“The Party’s Over”

The City by the Bay is at it again. These days, moral outrage does not come naturally to San Francisco. The Bay Area, famous as...Read this essay →
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In Condoms We Trust: Jane Fonda Rides to the Rescue

America is under attack, she warns, and only an all-out effort will save the Republic. Like a modern-day Paul Revere, Jane Fonda is sounding the...Read this essay →
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Worldview Test: Can We Do Without “Male” and “Female?”

Controversies and debates about gender define much of today's cultural landscape.  In reality, if you take away all debates about gender, gender roles, and sexuality,...Read this essay →
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The End of Gender As We Know It

In today's New York Times Jennifer Finney Boylan argues that the concept of two clearly defined--and distinct--genders is now outdated. Is gender a fluid concept?...Read this essay →
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“Sex and the Seminary” Interview on “Interfaith Voices”

I was interviewed by Interfaith Voices about the "Sex and the Seminary" report released a few months ago.  Interfaith Voices is heard on public radio...Read this essay →
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The Palin Parable — Bristol Says Abstinence “Not Realistic At All”

Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, made headlines last summer when it was revealed that she was about to become an...Read this essay →
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Sex and the Seminary?

The release of a report entitled "Sex and the Seminary" is certain to attract attention -- which is no doubt why the report was produced...Read this essay →
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The Hyper-Sexualization of the Day and the Christian Church

Most evangelicals would agree that the new sexual tolerance of our culture is one which the church must resist. But to what extent have we,...Read this essay →
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Desire and Deceit — New Book Now Available

My new book, Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance has just been released by Multnomah Publishers and is available through...Read this essay →
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The Strange Persistence of Moral Sanity

The fall of yet another politician in a sex scandal has added a note of Schadenfreude to the political season. Coming so quickly after the...Read this essay →
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Teen Pregnancy, Hollywood Style

Early in July, OK! magazine featured a cover story about Jamie Lynn Spears and her new baby, Maddie. Newsweek reported that the magazine paid $1...Read this essay →
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At Least for the Moment?

Ellen Goodman is an institution at the Boston Globe and one of the nation's most recognized liberal columnists. She has a keen eye for detail,...Read this essay →
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