Topic
Modesty
Prom's Biggest Drama Queens? The Adults
Striving for moderation on high school's biggest night.
May 14, 2013
Believing in a Better Modesty Movement
How we teach purity through a celebration of beauty and self-respect.
April 4, 2013
Lena Dunham: Bare, Brave, But Still Objectified
The difference between reclaiming our bodies and redeeming our selves.
March 18, 2013
Can You Teach Modesty Without Body-Shaming?
Girls told to cover their "irresistible" bellies, boobs, and bodies.
March 6, 2013
Why the Bodily Resurrection Matters—Especially to Women
In a time when Christian women are tempted to view their bodies with shame or with utility, the foundational doctrine is more important than ever.
June 27, 2012
Clothing in Church: Why It Matters
Like everything else in creation, what we wear can either glorify—or dishonor—God and others.
February 20, 2012
How 'Modest Is Hottest' Is Hurting Christian Women
What the phrase communicates about female sexuality and bodies.
December 15, 2011
The Rhetoric of Chastity: Making Abstinence Sexy
Communications expert Christine Gardner reveals what makes abstinence campaigns work.
November 18, 2011
Modesty: Still Missing from the Church
If our motivation is to look attractive at any cost with no consideration for others, there is a heart issue to confront.
August 4, 2011
Tiger Dads vs. Sexualized Daughters
Why one of our parental duties is to protect our children physically and spirituality by teaching them to be modest.
June 20, 2011
Resist the TSA?
Observers discuss whether Christians should resist airport body scans and pat-downs.
December 21, 2010
New Limits on Religious Freedom
Discussion: Should Christians support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public?
November 10, 2010
Burqa Watching in Great America
Some Muslim American women say wearing the burqa keeps others from objectifying them. But must women hide their bodies to be taken seriously?
September 1, 2010
Modesty: A Female-Only Virtue?
Scripture suggests that modesty means more than keeping the right parts covered.
May 18, 2010
An Open Letter to ESPN the Magazine
Regarding your plans to one-up Sports Illustrated with a "no-clothes" issue ...
July 28, 2009
Rise of Evangelicals Changes Brazilian Fashion
In the birthplace of the "fio dental" or dental floss string bikini, so-called evangelical fashion has emerged as a growing segment of the country's $52 billion-a-year textile industry (Associated Press)
Supreme Court upholds routine jailhouse strip searches, even for people facing minor charges
The Supreme Court has ruled that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches, siding with security needs over privacy rights. (Associated Press)
Tree of Failure
Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know that they need the conversation. The problem is that over the past 40 years or so we have gone from a culture that reminds people of their own limitations to a culture that encourages people to think highly of themselves.(David Brooks, The New York Times)
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