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Haley BaumeisterFamilyTechnologySexuality

Why It Is Difficult to Talk About Ethics of the Body

Contemporary emotivism as well as the deeply human desires that stand behind it conspire to make discussing the ethics of the body immensely difficult.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyTechnologyHealth & Medicine

Freebirth in an Age of Hospitals

The Free Birth Society is a dangerous reaction to the many ways that hospitals fail to care well for pregnant women.

Katelyn Walls SheltonFamilyTheologyTechnologyFormation

Shaping Conscience on Issues where Scripture is Silent

One needn't adopt the position of the church fathers or Rome to recognize that Protestantism's acceptance of contraception came via shoddy reasoning.

Matthew LoftusFamilyTechnologyFormation

Misunderstanding Porn

Dismissing a porn addiction as being a problem of unfulfilled sexual desire radically misunderstands why people turn to pornography in the first place.

Pieter ValkFamilyFormation

Discernment, Angst, and Vocational Celibacy

Asking God for aid in discerning whether one is called to marriage or celibacy might help calm anxiety and give direction to an anxious generation.

Marc SimsFamilyTechnologyFormation

Sex, Virtue, Technology

Within a covenantal relationship of care and mutual giving, sex is a powerful means of growing in virtue. Removed from that context, it is destructive.

Andrew KoperskiFamilyTheology

On Contraception, Tradition, and the Wise(r) Use of Christian History

Protestant arguments against contraception that simply appeal to church tradition in an undifferentiated way are far too simplistic to be helpful.

Amy MantravadiFamilyCultureFormation

Parenting an Autistic Child in 2025

If we lack a robust account of the goodness of human life itself, we will have very little to offer to parents of children on the autism spectrum.

Mitch EastFamilyCultureFormation

The Separation of Woman and Womb: A Warning

If we imagine some not unlikely future forms of biomedical tech we will quickly realize how inadequate much Christian thinking about bioethics has been.

Katelyn Walls SheltonFamilySexualityFormation

Sexuality and the Need for Moral Guidance

While it may sometimes be awkward, Christians should be talking more about sex, not less.

Kirsten SandersFamilyTheology

Desiderata for a Protestant Theology of the Body

Preliminary notes on what a Protestant 'theology of the body' ought to be.

Haley BaumeisterFamilyTechnologyFormation

The Case Against Vasectomies

The glib way in which many evangelicals approach procedures like vasectomies is indicative of how superficial our understanding of sexuality often is.