Reflections on Broader Culture

Parents Stymied by Trans Hysteria

We live in a moment of time when the supposedly science-based mental health and medical establishments have been wooed, bullied, and/or buffaloed into slavish acceptance of any and all claims by troubled teenagers and even children that they have been mistakenly born into bodies of the wrong sex; girls born into the body of a boy and boys born into the body of a girl. The Public Discourse has just published the anguished and heartbreaking stories of five mothers horrified … [more]

University Sex Culture Today

The report in the September 7, 2012, Chronicle of Higher Education (entitled “Sex and College at Yale”) should serve to motive responsible Christian parents to prepare their children for a culture hostile to Christian sexual morality:  In the winter of 2010, during a popular tradition at Yale University known as Sex Week, a representative of a sex-toy company called Babeland gave a talk to an eager audience of more than a thousand Yale undergraduates. Before long, the students, who had … [more]

On the Meaning of Perverse TV Sex

Pornography continues to intrude more and more into the standard fare on TV, and from there into the hearts and minds of many, including many children and teenagers. A recent essay lays out clearly the way the fundamental worldviews are at play in the depictions of sex on TV. “Girls” is a new television series on HBO (that we have never seen). An early episode created a cascade of criticism for a particular sex scene, with those criticisms in turn … [more]