The Gay Moment

This BreakPoint commentary first aired in 2003. Chuck offers sound counsel in understanding and responding to the sexual revolution.

Homosexuality was once called "the love that dare not speak its name." Nowadays, it won't keep quiet. Hardly a day goes by that doesn't bring fresh evidence of the increased social acceptance of homosexuality.

Not Mere Vice

First aired in 1999, this archive edition of BreakPoint helps to focus on how sin has corrupted God’s good gift of sex.

Wesleyan University in Connecticut, originally a Methodist college, is embroiled in controversy over one of its courses. Titled "Pornography: Writing of Prostitutes," the course requires students to create their own works of pornography. Worse, Wesleyan is not unique: Across the country colleges like Northwestern, Columbia, and New York University are offering courses in so-called "porn studies."

How did undergraduates go from studying Homer to creating pornography?

Teaching Teens the Real Purpose of Sex

This BreakPoint commentary first aired in October 2000.

Here’s an English Literature quiz. And you might give it to a teenager you know.

Who wrote these lines? A man and a woman in “naked majesty” were “imparadised in one another’s arms,” lying “side by side” in the “rites mysterious of connubial love,” about which “hypocrites austerely talk,” as if such acts were somehow “impure.” Having made love, the couple falls asleep “embracing” — “and on their naked limbs the flowery roof showered roses.”

A Petition of Christian Conscience

This call for Christians to stand for truth was first broadcast in January 2010.

One of my all-time favorite movies reminds me that it often takes a bold act to awaken the conscience of a nation.

It’s one of the most dramatic scenes in a really great movie. The movie is Amazing Grace.

Valentine’s Day Origins

First published for Valentine’s Day 1998, this BreakPoint commentary reminds us of the power and beauty of love, the greatest of Christian virtues.

A California pet store is offering the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the person who has everything: designer hermit crabs. The crabs’ shells have been hand-dipped in 24-karat gold.

God's Promises in Uncertain Times

Not much has changed in our culture since Chuck broadcast these comments three years ago.

You don’t have to look far to find cause for worry today. As jobs disappear, as our retirement plans shrivel, anxiety is knitting brows everywhere. Including, at times, my own.

Part of our worry comes from the fact that most Americans aren’t used to it! We’ve had relatively little to worry about in life. Sure, these are hard times, but this is not the Great Depression.