Sexuality

Paul Tyson argues that views about sexuality are downstream from theological — or at least metaphysical — assumptions about human nature. (16 minutes)

In this October 2023 lecture, Carl Trueman explores the concept of “desecration” as a frame for understanding the nature of modernity in our time. (42 minutes)

In this lecture, D. C. Schindler explains the cosmological significance of human sexuality and why it is paradigmatic of the relationship between nature and freedom. (32 minutes)

In this November 2018 lecture, Margaret McCarthy explains how the predictions of Pope Paul VI’s Humanae vitae regarding the consequences of separating sex from procreation have proven true. (38 minutes)

FROM VOL. 38 Wendy Shalit argues that when promiscuity is considered natural, women lose the leverage and power inherent in modesty. (13 minutes)

In a lecture titled "Gender and the Common Good," Margaret Harper McCarthy argues that the current ideology regarding gender fundamentally separates people from one another and finally even from themselves. (34 minutes)

C. S. Lewis on why the “right to sexual happiness” makes totalitarian demands

George Parkin Grant on how sex drives out love

FEATURED GUESTS: Stratford Caldecott, Fred Bahnson, Eric O. Jacobsen, J. Budziszewski, Brian Brock, and Allen Verhey

FEATURED GUESTS: Peter Augustine Lawler, David Koyzis, Roger Lundin, Craig Gay, Steven Rhoads, and R. Larry Todd

Dr. Robert Gagnon talks about the cultural trends and theological arguments that have shaped the dispute about homosexuality over the past few decades, in the hope of clarifying the answers to many of these complex questions. (72 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: David Lyon, Christopher Wolfe, Patrick Fagan, Joseph Davis, Morris Berman, Frank Burch Brown, Robert K. Johnston, and Ralph C. Wood

FEATURED GUESTS: Christopher Clausen, Don Eberly, George Weigel, Luci Shaw, Steve Wilkens, David Harvey, John Durham Peters, and Masaaki Suzuki

Produced in 2000, this audio documentary explores the changing ways in which Americans have understood and practiced courtship. (257 minutes)