by Jay Stringer | Mar 26, 2020 | Articles, Blog, Read Jay's Blogs
I’ve had my one-month trial of pandemic parenting and I’d like to cancel my subscription. Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and maddening roles I’ve ever experienced. But parenting in pandemic, where my whole family is being asked to shelter-in-place,...
by Jay Stringer | Mar 20, 2020 | Articles, Fight the New Drug, Read Jay's Blogs
I Think My Partner is Looking At Porn After Promising Not To—What Do I...
by Jay Stringer | Mar 20, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Read Jay's Blogs
Times of uncertainty like the one we’re in naturally intensify anxiety and powerlessness, and with it, the spread of pornography use. We turn to behaviors that provide relief from the difficulties we face, but as we all know, many of the solutions we find only end up...
by Jay Stringer | Mar 11, 2018 | Articles, Outreach Magazine, Read Jay's Blogs
What if I told you that your use of pornography could reveal your way to healing? As a licensed mental health counselor and ordained minister, I’ve seen firsthand that sexual brokenness is the stage through which the work of redemption can play out in our lives....
by Jay Stringer | Mar 11, 2018 | Articles, Read Jay's Blogs, The Allender Center
The evangelical community’s preoccupation with combatting lust has over-simplified and trivialized a far more complex issue within human sexuality. We exert tremendous effort attempting to stop our sexual fantasies, but neglect the critical task of understanding what...
by Jay Stringer | Mar 7, 2018 | Articles, Read Jay's Blogs
Women now make up 30% of all pornography users. For too long, society has presumed pornography to be an exclusively “man’s issue.”[i] The continued cultural silence for female pornography use has driven many women further into the shadows. Silence intensifies shame...