Does purity culture need a reevaluation? Author Rachel Joy Welcher says yes. She offers a thorough one in Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality.

This week, Abigail Shrier, author of the new book “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” found herself at the center of a firestorm. Her great crime: writing an assessment of the psychological phenomenon known as rapid onset gender dysphoria, where groups of psychologically vulnerable young girls begin to self-diagnose as transgender after one member of a peer group...

Netflix just released a movie titled Cuties. It is anything but cute. Many feel the “film” is an absolute child-exploiting monstrosity and have joined in on the online conversation to #CancelNetflix. Source: Cuties: Should We Only Be Mad With Netflix?

Every 98 seconds, an American experiences sexual assault. Raped my freshman year of college, I joined the 321,500 victims (age 12 or older) who experience rape and sexual assault each year in the United States. As a victim of sexual abuse, I joined the many women who spoke out in the #MeToo movement. Source: 7 Ways to Empower Women During...

“We’re pleased that the American Journal of Psychiatry has issued a rare public correction of serious errors in a study promoting so-called gender-reassignment surgery it published last October,” said Rev. Paul Sullins, Ph.D., Ruth Institute Senior Research Associate. Source: American Journal of Psychiatry Corrects Pro-Transgender Surgery Study

The COVID-19 pandemic has created any number of logistical problems for the entertainment industry. Production schedules have been interrupted, stalled or completely discontinued; late-night chat show hosts have been broadcasting out of their own homes; and now producers are faced with the challenge of how to show intimacy while keeping the actors socially-distanced. Source: COVID Concerns Force Hollywood to… |...

The head of a parental TV watchdog group is calling on Netflix to remove from its lineup “365 Days,” a graphic Polish film about a woman imprisoned for a year, ostensibly as a concubine. “If Netflix does not immediately remove this film from its platform and stop profiting from this pro-sex trafficking, pro-rape, and pro-kidnapping film, we will take our...

The head of a parental TV watchdog group is calling on Netflix to remove from its lineup “365 Days,” a graphic Polish film about a woman imprisoned for a year, ostensibly as a concubine. “If Netflix does not immediately remove this film from its platform and stop profiting from this pro-sex trafficking, pro-rape, and pro-kidnapping film, we will take our...

By Robert George – mirrorofjustice.blogs.com – June 15, 2020 I’ve spent much of today and this evening reading and re-reading the opinions in Bostock v. Clayton County. I respect Neil Gorsuch, whose nomination and confirmation I outspokenly supported, and I want to understand his position and reasoning. There is, however, no way to avoid the conclusion that the argument he bought is...

By: Carl R. Trueman – firstthings.com – June 22, 2020 Every now and then an important and insightful book is published almost without trace. Just as the best movies often do not win the Oscar, so it is with books: The most helpful can be those that few people pay attention to at the time of publication. One such is Theological Negotiations by...