A Match Made in Heaven: Uniting Christianity and Marital Sexuality
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.
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Author: Mark H. Butler
Mark H. Butler, Ph.D. Marriage and Family Therapy, is a Professor in the School of Family Life
Is Pornography Use a Fantasy of Transcendence?
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.
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Untying the Gordian Knot of Addiction
“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.
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How Could Avoiding ‘Sexual Soloing’ Be a Good Thing?
“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.
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America Needs Religion to Survive and Thrive
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.
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Living Well with Depression—My Personal Journey
Learning to live well with major depressive disorder through holistic self-care spanning the biological, psychological, relational and spiritual.
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