Sex Education

Parental Rights and Their Limits

The Parental Rights in Education Bill is a step in the right direction, but merely appealing to parental rights is not enough. Continue Reading »

10 May 2022

The Sex Education We Need

by Abigail Rine Favale

Christians, especially evangelicals, must recover the beauty and coherence of a teleological worldview. Continue Reading »

16 Apr 2018

Scam Artists and Sex Education

by Carl R. Trueman

Modern sex education keeps plunging society into deeper problems—and it keeps proposing as the solution more and more of the same. Continue Reading »

22 Nov 2017

Surveying Sex, Denying Childhood

by Carl R. Trueman

A survey administered by California schools makes children disclose their sexual behavior and marginalizes mom and dad. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2017

Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first-rate education for their children can only dream about. Founded in 2003, the school teaches the classical curriculum of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Students read the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2016

NFP vs. Sex Ed

by The Editors

The First Things Podcast, Episode 4. Also featuring: Catholic voting patterns and women deacons. Continue Reading »

5 Aug 2016

What They Didn't Tell Me
In Sex Ed

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

How Natural Family Planning taught me that the body is not a problem. Continue Reading »

29 Jul 2016

Getting Real

by Kari Jenson Gold

A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about the stuff of female life. Hair, clothes, boyfriends. Condoms, sexual harassment, abortion. A New York City kid’s list of concerns is somewhat more bewildering than mine was at her age. At the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1994

Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project

by Richard John Neuhaus

There are numerous obstacles to making the connections between religion and public life. For some moderns, a quasi-religious commitment to secularism produces an overt hostility to religion in all its manifestations. For many others, religion is self-evidently a purely private phenomenon. In that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1992

Boys and Girls: The Long Way Back to the Obvious

by Richard John Neuhaus

Surveys provide additional evidence that Americans are returning to “traditional values.” Traditional values is usually a synonym for common sense or moral platitudes. Such sense is common and such morality is platitudinous because they are powerfully confirmed and reconfirmed by human . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1991