What is sexual fasting? On abstinence in marriage
If you’ve been around traditional religion enough, you may have gotten the impression that the Church is not a huge fan of pleasure. Restrictions on food, alcohol, or sex can give the distinct impression that Christianity is ag...
What does the Bible say about self-satisfaction?
Christians in modern, western countries have a weird relationship with pleasure. There’s often a sense that Christianity is against pleasure, or at least suspicious of it, especially with sexual pleasure. How do we navigate ple...
Bible on pornography: What does God say about porn?
Pornography is not mentioned in the Bible, which should be fairly obvious. Pornography as we understand it today did not exist in the ancient world, especially since when most people talk about pornography they are talking abou...
"A man shall leave his father and mother." What does it mean?
What does the Bible mean when it says “a man shall leave his father and mother” and that he and his wife will become “one flesh”? In short, the Bible sees marriage as creating a single, unified body out of two individual bodies...