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Tag Archives: Porn
When free porn is truly free
When I took a glance at the search engine terms which directed people to my blog yesterday I wondered what the people who typed “free lap dancing porn”, “west porno free” and “open season porn” thought of what they found. … Continue reading
Posted in Means of Grace
Tagged free porn, freedom, Porn, searach terms, search engine, stats, transforming grace
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Porn Free
News has been released this week that a licence application has been submitted for a fourth lap dancing club in West Bromwich High Street. I can’t see how a town of only 137,000 people can support that many strip joints. … Continue reading
More on Christians dealing with porn
There’s a few posts on this blog about overcoming porn use and how the Christian press has been raising the issue of porn more openly and decisively in recent times. An American journalist, Anne Jackson, commented on my post on … Continue reading
The Crisis in British Masculinity
There’s more evidence in last week’s Daily Mail of discontent amongst British women due to a crisis of masculinity in British men. Liz Jones writes “Who created this generation of feeble ‘Hotel Mum’ men? Er, I did” Jones is scathing … Continue reading
Posted in Other matters
Tagged Daily Mail, Guy Ritchie, Jordan, kidulthood, kidults, Liz Jones, Madonna, masculinity, Pete Andre, Porn, Pornography
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Porn open season
Has anyone else noticed that the Christian press is writing openly and decisively about the problem of pornography? Christianity magazine ran an article titled Gagged and Bound in its February edition, asking why churches are silent on something which is … Continue reading
Posted in Transforming lives
Tagged Christianity Magazine, Porn, porn again, Pornography, Richard Perkins, The Briefing
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The vicar’s wife and lads’ mags
There’s been little local storm brewing over at the Express and Star after they ran an article about the successful complaint by the vicar’s wife which led to lads’ mags at Asda being moved to the top shelf. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Transforming hatred of Sin
Tagged express and star, feminism, FHM, flirt, GQ, lads mags, masculinity, Maxim, Nuts, Porn, Porn Again Christian, Pornography, the vicar's wife
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For Men Only: overcoming porn use
I have decided to change the opening line of this post from “This post is for men only” to “read this if you use porn, it will help you build the desire you need to kick the habit.” Why have … Continue reading
Posted in Transforming hatred of Sin
Tagged Care, Driscoll, Idolatry, Mark Driscoll, Men Only, Porn, Porn Again Christian, Pornography, Romans 1, Worship
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Transforming Grace 