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We Need to Talk—About Porn
By: Sarabeth Ng | September 5, 2022
The church’s handling of porn use thus far has been undergirded by contempt, shame, and gossip. We have centered men and their personal righteousness over the very real harm done to women and girls.
Hot Wives, Evil Sirens, and Trapped Men: How the Church’s Messaging on Porn Fails Women
By: Eleanor Hall | April 14, 2021
There is a pressing need for the UK and US church to address how porn dehumanizes and exploits women and to recognize how resources meant to address porn use have centered the male gaze and perpetuated rape culture.
Pornography for Profit: The Link to Sex Trafficking
By: Sandra Morgan | August 3, 2019
This workshop explores pornography in the context of sex trafficking as a cycle of abuse driven by demand and fueled by greed.
Book Review: Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire
By: Jamin Hübner | October 30, 2018
Jessica Johnson, an anthropologist with no religious affiliation, finds the ethos and orientation at Mars Hill as incarnating “biblical porn” (hence the title of her book).
Ending Abuse: 4 Steps for Churches
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | June 5, 2018
What the research says about why some men harass while other's don't. And what churches can do about it.
A Church in Crisis: Pornography and Patriarchy
By: Rebecca Kotz | August 10, 2016
There is a cost to benching half the church. There is a cost to consuming porn. There is a cost to marginalizing women. There is a cost to the betraying silence of the church. And ultimately, the cost is women’s lives.
The Whisper of Power
By: Kriste Patrow | December 5, 2011
Pornography is so prevalent that often one does not ask if a man watches pornography but rather how much. In one recent study conducted on male sex buyers, researchers defined a “non-user” as a man who had not used pornography more than one time in the last month.
The Deception of Eve and the Ontology of Women
By: CBE International | November 1, 2010
A special CBE publication developed for members of the Evangelical Theological Society, this journal offers a biblical, theological, and practical challenge to the idea that women are inferior at the level of being and should therefore hold roles of submission to men.
Book Review: Luke Reynold's A New Man
By: Matthew Gemmill | March 15, 2009
Drawing from his own experience of pornography addiction, Reynolds calls men, in his book A New Man, to reject any conception of masculinity that sees porn use as a natural—or, even worse, an essential—part of being a man.
What Wounds One, Wounds All
By: Dr. Mimi Haddad, President of CBE International | March 5, 2009
Though often indulged in secret, the impact is widely felt and impossible to escape as it shapes a devaluation of women. Yet in loving one another as Christ did, we recognize that what injures one member in Christ’s body hurts all.