Evangelical Teen Promiscuity

Dept. of Disputation: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Fascinating article in the New Yorker talking about the promiscuity of evangelical teens and the responses of people toward their behavior. "Social liberals in the country’s “blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the idea that many teen-agers have sex before marriage, but would regard a teen-age daughter’s pregnancy as devastating news. And the social conservatives in “red states” generally advocate abstinence-only education and denounce sex before marriage, but are relatively unruffled if a teen-ager becomes pregnant, as long as she doesn’t choose to have an abortion." The research in this article coupled with recent publications noting the exodus of evangelical teens from the church when they are off to college and into their early twenties suggests there is some wrong with current modes of youth ministry and the discipleship of children and teens.