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My formal introduction to the costs of inquiry into sensitive matters began at 6:30 Eastern time on the morning of Sunday, June 10, 2012. Seven hours earlier, the publisher...

The Recovery of Family Life:Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologiesby scott yenorbaylor, 368 pages, $49.99 Norms about sex, sexuality, marriage, and family life have been upended by a rolling...

This past August, Brown University public health professor Lisa Littman had her woke moment. Littman studies sexual health concerns, from reproduction to substance use in pregnancy to gender dysphoria—today’s...

Something strange is going on in America’s bedrooms. In a recent issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers reported that on average, Americans have sex about nine fewer times...

Over the course of the next several weeks, we will continue to hear plenty about the Protestant Reformation, its causes, its consequences, and the prospects for Christian unity. And...

I don’t often write book reviews, because it’s not often that this sociologist digests a readable academic book that begs wider discussion. Some books have compelling ideas that deserve...

Americans’ public and private lives are on a collision course. Our social system—the one we publicly engage daily—still unwittingly encourages and rewards chaste behavior (though perhaps not speech). Privately,...

I have a good marriage. Is it a great marriage? I don’t know. Do we squabble? Plenty. Do either of us feel shortchanged? With regularity. Might we be happier...

Forty-three percent of American men (and 9 percent of women) now report using pornography within the past week. It’s not an adolescent thing, either, as data from the new...

There’s a mainline congregation I walk past on my way to the local Starbucks. The church’s advertising signals a key priority: “We value our inclusivity—whether you are young, old,...

Many Christians regularly recite the Apostle’s or Nicene Creed, recounting aloud beliefs they hold to be foundational. With the share of our neighbors that self-identify as agnostic, atheist, or...