by afladmin | Jun 1, 2020 | Abstinence
As I’ve gotten older, I have realized the importance of understanding why my body does certain things at certain times of the month. And as I’ve studied and researched, I’ve become more and more aware of how much education was withheld from me about not only what my...
by afladmin | Mar 10, 2020 | Social Justice
With Sexual Assault so much in the news (and next month being Sexual Assault Awareness Month!), it can only benefit students to be aware of the growing crisis, especially on college campuses, and how to prevent it happening to them. It can have lasting...
by afladmin | Nov 11, 2019 | Abstinence
Let’s just get this out there: We all dread “the talk.” The talk that no parent looks forward to, but all parents know is critical. The sex talk reduces most of us to our middle-school-selves, all tongue-tied, darty-eyed, and fidgety. The talk is something parents...
by afladmin | Sep 9, 2019 | Abstinence
If you are the parent of a teen, you likely are living through an encore season of teaching your child to use his or her words. This development stage can be more exhausting than it was in the toddler years. Instruction in the basics was so much easier: Say “Mama.”...
by afladmin | Jul 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
In Christian teaching we often mix up the idea of imperatives and indicatives—commands and truths. Some of us think that imperatives threaten our freedom. Others love these commands, but for the wrong reasons, thinking that if we keep the commands we can somehow...