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"Leave Room For Jesus:" Does Purity Culture Devalue Girls?

At Santa Rosa Christian School, dancing was a gateway drug. The gyrating, the slow romantic swaying...

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Hollywood Is Remaking She's All That

In news that makes us simultaneously shriek with excitement and roll our eyes, Hollywood is preparing for a remake of 1999's

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The Glory And Burden Of High School "Promposals"

In case the extremism of our current engagement culture isn't enough, we've gone ahead and upped the ante. Welcome to The Promposal.

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What Happens When An Earthquake Strikes The Place Where You Grew Up?

I'm from Napa, the epicenter for a recent 6.0 magnitude quake that challenged my ideas about Mother Nature and human nature.

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Teen Rapists Face Intense Charges, Could Set New Precedent

Sadly, it's a tale as old as time; a person is sexually assaulted and the rapist(s) rides happily off into the sunset. But not in Georgia.

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KFC’s Fried Chicken Corsage: Hitting the Sweet Spot of High School Irony

Yeah, when I first heard about it, I thought KFC had gone off the deep end . . . then I remembered what high school is like.

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