Category Archives: Abortion

This Saturday marks the starts of my “This Week in Sexuality” weekly feature. Every Saturday I will spotlight the “sexuality” stories I came across in the previous seven days.

 

The biggest sexuality story hands down has been the release of Mark Driscoll’s Real Marriage. The book has barely been out two weeks and it already has just shy of an hundred reviews on Amazon. Egalatarians hate the book because Driscoll is a complementarian and believes in “traditional” marriage. No shocker there. However, the book is even getting mixed reviews from people that are in basic theological alignment with the Seattle pastor. A lot of the controversey stems from the fact that the book has a seemingly inordinate amount of its content dedicated sexual intercourse and various sex acts. I have yet to read the book but I do recall Driscoll’s teaching on the Song of Solomon being fairly messed up. I do eventually plan to pick up since it will be a significant influence on Christians.

 

Here are some of the better reviews I came across:

Sidenote: The best book I’ve read on marriage so far is Doug Wilson’s Reforming Marriage. I’d recommend Ed Wheat’s Intended for Pleasure if you are looking for something that focuses on the sex act.

 

 

Mark Oppenheimer’s latest article in the New York Times on Evangelicals shifting their views regarding contraception is worth checking. Here is a short quote:

“Since then, however, there has been a shift in evangelical thinking about contraception, and therefore about big families. You can see it in the Duggar family, the enthusiastic Santorum supporters who star on the reality television show “19 Kids & Counting.” You can read about it in books like “Quiverfull,” Kathryn Joyce’s 2009 account of Christians who forgo contraception to add children to the Lord’s army. And you can hear it in the teachings of theologians like Russell D. Moore, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary dean who warns evangelicals to be skeptical of the ‘contraceptive culture.’”