In Search of Best Resources on Sex, Dating, Purity, and Healthy Relationships
It’s resource sharing time. When it comes to talking to your students about things like sex, dating, pornography, hooking up, purity, holiness, […]
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Hey! Remember to Smile
It seems both simple and obvious, but while you’re out and about on campus — remember to smile. As I’ve walked around […]
SAME LOVE >> How Should This Message Inform Our Ministry With Students?
About a year and a half ago I conducted a brief interview with Donna Freitas. Freitas, a professor at Boston University, is […]
One Single Sex Boundary That Just Might Work
I smile nostalgically to think of your students’ imminent arrival on campus. My wife and I agree. The four years we spent […]
A New Metaphor for Talking About Sex (and Relationships)
The game of baseball has long been a popular metaphor used when talking about sex and/or sexual activity. First base. Second base. […]
The Cost of Being a Bridge Builder between LGBTs and the Church
I feel the costs of the corporate LGBT and Church disconnect have been well documented for what this culture war has left in its wake.
The broader LGBT community’s retelling of this story, in most cases, has the Bride acting more like Bridezilla than the Bride who, when the doors swing open for the first time, is standing in her gown, looking as beautiful as she has ever looked, ready to walk down the aisle and be sacramentally joined with God to the person she loves more than any other on the face of the earth.
And the Church’s retelling of this disconnect, at its core, is in most cases one of denominational and congregations division—separating what many thought was once one of the three unbreakable cords tied to the Lord for good works.
4 Sex Lies That College Students Believe
In my 10 years of sharing with singles (primarily college students) I’ve zeroed in on four lies I think we need to overcome in order to lead our students into sexual freedom and, more importantly, their true identity in Christ.
Maids and Margaritas and Sex on Warm Sand
What would it look like to be content in our waiting and with our sexuality, as both singles and marrieds, not because we’re perfect at waiting for sex or we’re perfectly sexual but because we’re content in our humanity, in our femininity and masculinity, in our longing for union with the trinity?
The Objectification of Women
For the past 10 years, I have been privileged to be the pastor, counselor, mentor, “Dad,” spiritual guide, and friend to hundreds upon hundreds of students at Florida State University.
We’ve discussed everything from theology to dating to vocations and callings. We’ve laughed together, and we’ve cried. Some talks have brightened my days, and some have broken my heart.
Among the heartbreakers, a persistent, nagging theme has recently emerged via three different, but related, issues…
Are Long-Distance Relationships Better???
With 7 out of every 10 students claiming to have been in a long-distance relationship at some point, they are probably something we should know more about.
Long-distance relationships are not new, but advances in technology have made staying connected to high school sweethearts — or significant others from a previous school — a lot easier.
Yet, what do we really know about long-distance relationships???
And how do we assist students when we typically only get to see one side of the relationship.