Posts Tagged ‘Porn’

Machine-Gun Misogyny: Why It’s Not Okay To Use Porn To Promote Your Ministry

Yesterday morning I was scrolling my Facebook wall when I came across this post from the pastor of a local church. “Machine Gun Preacher story in (Australian) Penthouse Magazine, May issue. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 1 Corinthians 9:22.” I...

June 19th, 2012 | Blog, Essays, Social Justice | Read More

Twilight and Porn

A well-meaning Christian leader told my daughter that the Twilight series has the same effect on a teenage girl’s brain as porn does on the brain. My daughter was rightly perplexed after hearing this since she loves Jacob the werewolf from the Twilight series. She had heard about the evils...

March 23rd, 2011 | Blog, Featured | Read More

Emotional Porn: Usually Starring Sandra Bullock

There is a verse in the Bible that says something I had always mistakenly credited to Confucius, or Bono, I wasn’t sure. Ecclesiastes 1:9 reads, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” I think that statement could not be truer than...

October 29th, 2009 | Film | Read More

Sexting: To Porn or Not to Porn

Before I climb up on that high horse of mine, let me come clean. Yes. I played Spin-the-Bottle as a young girl. It was a routine summer activity on Friday and Saturday nights in the trailer park where I grew up. Kids would gather at the deep end of the swimming pool during the noon-day heat but once...

June 4th, 2009 | Blog | Read More