It’s getting ever more dangerous out there for our children. We briefly address four dangers here by drawing your attention to 3 articles. We address all of these issues at greater length in our 2019 3rd editions of our books, though to these articles come out since those books were completed. The dangers: Pornography is increasingly shoved at our kids and grandkids by unscrupulous and unprincipled producers and distributors through every possible digital means. Experts agree that pornography is becoming … [more]

A hilarious commercial from several years ago, available here, is a realistic depiction of the mistaken two-stage strategy of all-too-many parents when it comes to sex education in the home: First, offer an evasive concoction of half-truths about where babies come from (or even, as in this commercial, an outrageous fairytale). Second, when your child does not buy it and begins to ask too many questions, change the subject (in this case, by blasting out “The Wheels on the Bus … [more]

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]

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]

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]

On Monday, January 16, 2012, my article “Same-Sex Science” documenting the growing acceptance of false beliefs about homosexuality promulgated in the name of science will be officially published in the February issue of the journal First Things (in print and on its website). This article is extracted from a much longer, original version “Sexual Orientation and Reason: Implications of False Beliefs about Homosexuality.” To summarize these articles, I quote first from the introduction of the shortened version published by First … [more]

“Sex is great!” chants the crowd at the sexual abstinence rally. The point is not to encourage the teenagers attending to have sex, but rather to encourage them to wait to have sex until they are married. My colleague at Wheaton, Dr. Christine Gardner, has just published her new book, “Making Chastity Sexy: the Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns.” She studies, as an expert in communication, the messages of the many teen-oriented abstinence programs that attempt to help encourage teenagers … [more]

In late September and early October, 2011, I (Stan) published a study showing that some homosexuals can change significantly, findings that support the validity of Christian ministries like Exodus international. The Christian media paid some attention; the secular media largely yawned and looked the other way. This is remarkable, because the main mental health organizations proclaimed steadily the change is impossible, and our study directly contradicts that conclusion. I put this experience against an experience I had in 2007 when … [more]