Just how is is that we got to this world, where yesterday’s crazy-talk became today’s most serious ideas? Just imagine sitting down with Mayberry’s Aunt Bee and explaining same-sex marriage or transgenderism. What comes next? She sniffs your breath for whiskey fumes? Yet here we are. Carl R. Trueman maps out the road to our craziness in his book, The Rise and Triumph of [...]
Get in on the ground floor, sister. Born in January, 1946, this is exactly what Sue Ellen Browder, author of Subverted, did. That birthdate placed her at the headwaters of the Baby Boom, handing her the all the Baby-Boom benefits. You know, the sexual revolution, feminism, abortion. It’s also the memoir of a small-town girl with big-city dreams. Browder stood at the magazine racks [...]
I used to read Mormon blogs addictively, in spite of disagreeing with much of what their writers had to say. Many take issue with the Church’s “Proclamation on the Family.” I believe they miss the mark and speak my mind here. We’ve enjoyed ourselves a sexual revolution because technology sweeps the short-term consequences away. I wouldn’t bet, though, on escaping the long-term consequences, even [...]
You’ve met author Jennifer Roback Morse in these pages before. Now she’s back with her newest book, The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Catholic Church Was Right All Along. In its pages, she makes the case that the Sexual Revolution wasn’t as organic as some teenage no-parents party. Laws were passed, grants were granted, court cases were filed. Case [...]
This will be a quick post, due to family time over the weekend. Even though same-sex marriage is legal in numerous countries, traditionalists continue to tell the world that these marriages are not a good place to raise children. It may be hard to convince our own children of this point of view. They may tell us that our opinions are judgmental and ill-informed. [...]
In the last few months, two friends have mentioned to me that their children feel swamped by a tide of friends declaring their transgenderism. “What do I say?” asked one mother. What indeed? With news like this, you can’t imagine how fast I scooped up this week’s book, Sex Scandal by Ashley McGuire. For one thing, McGuire is a millennial. She’s known nothing but [...]
Let’s say you are the mother of a teenage girl. Let’s say you’ve convinced her to wait to have sex. But she’s surrounded by other teenagers that are doing it. You want her to know that becoming a mom at age fifteen is not the way to go. She nods like Yeah, yeah, Mom, but then one of her friends has a baby and all [...]
