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Not a week goes by when I am not drawn into commenting on the sexualizing of American culture. Sometimes this happens in a very tender conversation over a cup of tea, listening to the tears of someone's heart as they tell a tale of hope and sorrow, of yearning and grief. Sometimes it is in a much more public place like a classroom where the intimacy is gone, but the issues are just as live and have far-reaching consequence.

If there is any one story that comes up again and again it is Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, his novel about a young woman who leaves the mountains of North Carolina for the fictional yet very prestigious Dupont University, an amalgam of Duke/Stanford/Harvard.

--So begins Steve Garber's Sex in the Society: Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons as a Window into Who We Are and How We Live.

If you have not had time to read Wolfe's piece, I would encourage you to read Garber's review and his interviews w/2 young women who discuss the disturbingly casual nature of sex life on campus. Please take a moment to browse over to this piece and have it guide your prayers from students/children you know on campus today and for the redemptive Light of Christ to shine through all of God's people who are connected in all aspects of campus life.

P.S. Here's Steve Garber's Washington Institute, a still-point ...connecting knowing and doing, heart and mind, belief and behavior, worldview and way of life.