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Dan Savage and the New Morality

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On October 10, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Culture

The first thing you should probably know about me is that I’m a bit of a prude. I don’t mind admitting that. When I received my iPhone 4S in the mail last year, the very first thing I did was launch Siri. I had been reading all day about the hilarious questions [...]

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Douglas Wilson and The Nasty

By David Sessions On January 18, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Religion

Reading the various reactions of Christian bloggers to the Mark Driscoll book, two in particular stuck with me. The first was by Matt Anderson, who I think described the correct way to think about the event of an evangelical sex book, and also nailed the essentially legalistic character of [...]

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Mark Driscoll and the Evangelical (Publishers’?) Obsession with Sex

By David Sessions On January 13, 2012 · 6 Comments · In Religion

First of all, I have a story today at The Daily Beast on the fallout over Mark Driscoll’s “controversial” new book, Real Marriage. It’s probably not news to most Patrol readers, but check it out if you’re interested. At least I had fun describing Driscoll as a “testosterone-oozing Calvinist bruiser.”

Something that [...]

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Justin Beiber Understands Biblical Sex Better than Focus on the Family

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On February 18, 2011 · 14 Comments · In Culture, Religion

Focus on the Family’s community action affiliate Citizen Link issued a statement yesterday to “pray hard” for Justin Beiber, after he answered a question about sex before marriage from Rolling Stone in this [...]

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Incredibly Strange Condom Remark Causes Incredible Controversy

By Jon Busch On November 23, 2010 · 9 Comments · In Religion

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the Pope’s recent comments on condom use have ignited a “firestorm” and sparked a “frenzy” as the Vatican rushed to clarify his comments.

I have to confess that I found the article somewhat baffling, especially in consideration of the highly specific, convoluted hypothetical [...]

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