Family Matters
Cancel Culture Home Brew: Political Self-Care or Dangerous Games?
Should politics supersede family bonds? No. Forgiveness and respect in families sustain both unity and society.
Mark H. Butler
November 22, 2024
Should politics supersede family bonds? No. Forgiveness and respect in families sustain both unity and society.
Do informal bishop-parent-youth interviews promote positive change? They can foster unity and spiritual growth.
What helps bishops strengthen youth and parent bonds? Open dialogue ensures unity and prevents misunderstandings.
How can family-centered ministry help Latter-day Saint youth? Working together avoids common pitfalls and magnifies the power of ministry.
Pornography is toxic to relational and sexual health. Recovering from the relational health crisis of pornography involves forsaking pornography and its toxic scripts, regaining and deepening our intimate empathy, and learning and committing to safely hold one another.
Pop culture shows the married sex lives of religious people as dull and boring, if existent at all. But the research paints a dramatically different picture.
The case for why pornography use is better understood as a lived solipsism and hedonism—in partial concurrence and reflective response to Hess and Barborka.
“Why can’t I just stop?!” Understanding the brain’s own learning capacities can help us answer this maddening question that comes up with any addiction. It may also help us find a way out.
“Sexual soloing” is a normal developmental challenge for many people. Yet contrary to popular declarations, there are a great many empirical reasons to question its widespread embrace as “healthy,” especially in the context of pornographic arousal.
In the inspired founding of our nation, the Founders pitted power against power, greed against greed, and religious morality against the both of them—and they warned that without religion, our freedom, peace, and prosperity would not endure.
Learning to live well with major depressive disorder through holistic self-care spanning the biological, psychological, relational and spiritual.