By Katie McCoy “There is a moral panic in America over young women’s sexuality and it’s been breathing new life into a very old idea.” So says Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women. Dubbed the “poster-girl for third-wave feminism,” Valenti claims...

William Loader.  Making Sense of Sex:  Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013.  168 pp.  $24.00. By Godwin Sathianathan Has there ever been a society in history where sex isn’t a hot topic? I’m not qualified to give a definitive answer, but my gut tells me “no.” Today, as...

by Steve Watters Sludge. It’s the sticky, gooey, too-thick-to-walk-through stuff that floats on polluted, oily water. And it’s the word we use to describe much of our lives as parents. It’s what we feel walking through our home at the end of the day, as the house that was clean at 6:00 a.m. now feels...

By Jeremy Dys When I see the head of the nation’s largest provider of abortion write in reference to the contraceptive mandate of Obamacare, “No one’s freedom to practice religion is compromised,” I tend to think she is attempting her best Obi Wan Kenobi, Jedi mind trick on the nation. But, this is not Tatooine...

By Dave Jenkins Biblical manhood is an idea that is extremely neglected in our society today. Popular culture emphasizes to men that they are to be like their favorite sports hero—super-strong or superhuman, able to conquer all and take no prisoners. The problems with this are many—from the fact that it promotes pride, which God...

  By Katie Van Dyke My life has not at all turned out how I thought it would. In fact, where I am in life now is pretty much the complete opposite of what I had wanted and planned 10 years ago. I have no husband, no kids, and I work in a corporate office....