Family Matters
Why Marriage, Sex, and Family Are Keys to Sanctification
How does intimacy sanctify? By aligning marriage, sex, and family with God’s divine plan for holiness.
Chelom Leavitt
January 6, 2025
How does intimacy sanctify? By aligning marriage, sex, and family with God’s divine plan for holiness.
Science shows that male and female reproductive roles define sex despite rare anomalies.
Can we regard all nudity in art as innocent? Sexual undertones and potential for exploitation suggest not.
How can sexuality be sacred? Through covenant and commitment, reflecting God’s plan for eternal families.
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.
Is pornography sabotaging men’s emotional connections and ability to experience authentic intimacy? These emotional consequences are often overlooked in mainstream discussions.
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.
Even the best of motives do not allow us to change the commandments or remove the crosses of others.
We are often told that great sex requires us to break boundaries and follow our passions wherever they lead. But what if great sex requires us to take account of the moral value of ourselves and others?
You can. But don’t be surprised when others are swept away. And try to appreciate the courage of those working hard to turn their hearts towards something better and more beautiful.
In our efforts to communicate love and inclusiveness, we may sometimes send messages that mean quite a bit more than what we had intended.
With popular media and scholars unabashed about popularizing “consensual non-monogamy,” it’s time for some straight talk about the realities behind the alluring rhetoric of “open love.”