Parental Rights and Their Limits
by Scott YenorThe Parental Rights in Education Bill is a step in the right direction, but merely appealing to parental rights is not enough. Continue Reading »
The Sex Education We Need
by Abigail Rine FavaleChristians, especially evangelicals, must recover the beauty and coherence of a teleological worldview. Continue Reading »
Scam Artists and Sex Education
by Carl R. TruemanModern sex education keeps plunging society into deeper problems—and it keeps proposing as the solution more and more of the same. Continue Reading »
Surveying Sex, Denying Childhood
by Carl R. TruemanA survey administered by California schools makes children disclose their sexual behavior and marginalizes mom and dad. Continue Reading »
Transgender Conformity
by Katherine KerstenNova 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 »
NFP vs. Sex Ed
by The EditorsThe First Things Podcast, Episode 4. Also featuring: Catholic voting patterns and women deacons. Continue Reading »
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 »
Getting Real
by Kari Jenson GoldA 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 »
Reason Public and Private: The Pannenberg Project
by Richard John NeuhausThere 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 »
Boys and Girls: The Long Way Back to the Obvious
by Richard John NeuhausSurveys 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 »
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