The thesis of the new book Pornocracy is straightforward: Porn is bad. It makes women more at risk of rough sex and even rape, renders men incapable of relationship, and puts children in danger.
But what does a positive vision of sex and human flourishing absent the porn industry’s clutches look like?
The book doesn’t say. "In their acknowledgments, the writers thank ‘religious conservatives’ for being allies in the good fight," writes our reviewer. "To the force of what these two secular thinkers have presented, may we add not only our hatred of evil but our proclamation of what’s good and the extension of a vision of grace to even the chief of sinners."
This week on The Bulletin, David French and Elizabeth Neumann join our hosts to discuss the US’s extraction of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela.
"Although I am relieved that Maduro’s gone, the ends do not justify the means, and the means are so alarming that they overwhelm the virtuous elements of the ends." | Listen here, and read our reporting on the Venezuelan pastors praying for peace.
Angela Lu Fulton, international editor: For next year: Our community group does an annual sock exchange around Christmas. All the same rules as white elephant, but only socks (divided into men’s, women’s, kids’). The most practical gift!
Kate Lucky, senior features editor: Maybe you’re gluten-free—or maybe, like me, you have a lot of gluten-free friends. If you ever need to make a birthday dessert for them, might I recommend either these enormous, bakery-style chocolate chip cookies or this flaky chocolate cake. Add fruit on top, slivered strawberries or slices of mango.
Mia Staub, senior editorial project manager: This year, I plan to be a public menace by making a shaker of local wildflower seeds and spreading a chaos garden. If anyone asks, it wasn’t me.
Technology has revolutionized our world time and time again. Electricity transformed daily life, increased industrial productivity, and provided safer and more stable power for lighting, heating and cooking alike. Television…
As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature "An American Deportation" as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.
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