Single and Christian and Chaste?
by Mark BauerleinDavid J. Ayers joins the podcast to discuss his new book, After the Revolution: Sex and the Single Evangelical. Continue Reading »
Scott Yenor on Sexual Counter-Revolution
by R. R. RenoScott Yenor joins the podcast to talk about the ends and limits of the sexual liberation movement. Continue Reading »
No, Junior, the Catholic Church is not the Same as ISIS
by Br. Michael BaggotA seventh-grader recently asked me how to respond to his peer’s obstinate claim that he and the rest of his Catholic co-religionists are just as bad as ISIS. Continue Reading »
Richard Swinburne on Sex, Family, and Life
by The EditorsA controversy has erupted in the past week over a keynote delivered by Richard Swinburne at the most recent Midwest meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. We at First Things were curious about the paper that prompted all the to-do, and so we asked Professor Swinburne to let us make his paper available. He has generously agreed. Continue Reading »
Why Man and Woman Are Not Equal
by Glenn T. StantonMan and woman are not equal. He owes what he is to her. That is hardly her only power, but it is among her most formidable. Continue Reading »
Can Only Theologians Get Married?
by Matthew SchmitzIf the sincere exchange of vows doesn’t make their marriage valid, what does? Must all sacramentally valid marriages resemble my friends', beginning only after a few years of theological study, during a Mass set to music by Mozart? Continue Reading »
The True Goods of Marriage: Not What We Expect
by Bianca CzadernaEveryone’s talking about marriage these days. Even those who don’t believe in it are talking about it all the time. The definition of marriage, the future of marriage, gay marriage, divorce and remarriage, when to get married, how to be married, how to stay married. It’s simultaneously being . . . . Continue Reading »
The Gospel of Jesus on Sexual Binaries
by Robert A. J. GagnonRachel Held Evans is once again arguing against “The False Gospel of Gender Binaries.” Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading “into” the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading “out of” . . . . Continue Reading »
Five Ways the Church Can Help Married and Engaged Couples
by Ashley McGuireSitting at a high-top table in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, just a few blocks away from Pope Francis and the World Meeting of Families, a young priest friend leaned in and asked me what I wish had been different about my marriage prep. “Having been through it recently, what would you . . . . Continue Reading »
Teaching the Family
by Nathaniel PetersLove Is Our Mission, a preparatory catechesis on family tied to the Catholic Church’s upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, begins exactly as it should: with Jesus revealing that being created in the image and likeness of God means being created to offer others the gift of ourselves. Continue Reading »
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