Tori Spelling Asks: How and When to Talk Religion With Kids?


Updated 04/10/12 2:35 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Talking to Kids About Religion

We're happy to share a new post from ediTORIal by Tori Spelling, Tori's daily blog about everything from food and fashion to parenting and relationships. This week, Tori asks for advice on how to talk religion with kids One of the things I love best about ediTORIal is the community we've built here on the site. I really enjoying reading all of your thoughts and comments — I have such hilarious Read more

Group Therapy: My Family Believes in Arranged Marriage, but I'm in Love


Updated 04/10/12 4:16 PM · Posted by · 13 comments

Family Believes in Arranged Marriage

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! Hi, I'm a 22-year-old girl from a strict Sikh family, where all my four sisters have had arranged marriages. I have been dating a guy from a Hindu family for four years. His family really likes me and we want to get married next year, but due to my parents we are afraid of the consequences. Read more

Pope Offers Wider Abortion Forgiveness For a Limited Time Only


Updated 08/21/11 5:54 PM · Posted by · 6 comments

Pope to Forgive Abortions in Madrid For World Youth Day

Here's the catch. You have to get to Madrid by the end of the week. The pope will arrive in Madrid tomorrow for World Youth Day, and as part of his visit, any woman who confesses her abortion during the event will be forgiven and welcomed back to the Church. "Special powers" have been given to all priests in Madrid, which they can use to absolve women who confess abortions. A Vatican spokesman Read more

5 Surprising Finds on Religious Women's Sex Lives


Updated 04/14/11 5:26 PM · Posted by · 5 comments

Study Finds Religious Women Use Contraception

New research from the Guttmacher Institute may debunk the idea that religion and sex don't mix. Using data gathered from a 2006-2008 survey of more than 7,000 US women ages 15-44, this report found that women of a variety of religions — Protestant, Catholic, and Buddhism included — are having sex and using contraception. These findings are released in the midst of the Planned Parenthood Read more

Creepy Advice: Have Your Dad Screen Your Sexy Clothes


Updated 04/10/11 7:46 AM · Posted by · 24 comments

Christian Girls Should Have Dad's Screen Their Wardrobes

Pastor C.J. Mahaney has some advice for cluelessly provocative Christian girls: have your dad check you out before you leave the house. If he's turned on, you should change. Such advice is included in the pastor/author's video sermon on men's thoughts on modesty. Listen carefully ladies. College boys are telling Pastor Mahaney that every day on campus is a battle. "I am thankful God has Read more

Link Time — Pole Dance For Jesus


Updated 03/22/11 3:07 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 1 comment

Pole Dancing For Jesus Video

Pole dancing for Jesus, the new Christian workout — The Frisky Can you really die from a broken heart? — Huffington Post Six money life lessons from a younger you — SavvySugar 10 steps to becoming soul mates — YourTango Balancing commitments with your guy's family — Glamour He said/she said: decoding text messages — CollegeCandy Do most guys consider themselves feminists? — Em Read more

Speed Read — Not Everyone Is Happy With Gender-Neutral Bible


Updated 03/18/11 10:25 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 0 comments

Gender-Neutral Bible

Gender-neutral Bible makes some people mad — MSNBC Kate Middleton's iconic see-through dress sells for a lot — PopSugar Charlie Sheen will make $7 million on his live tour — TMZ Students upset with SAT question about reality TV — Nerve Sarah Palin not content with defunding NPR — Jezebel College is not really a place of same-sex experimentation — New York Times Raymond Clark III Read more

Carnival Around the World


Updated 03/08/11 1:05 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Carnival 2011 Pictures

Happy Mardi Gras! Get some beads and commit a sin — but not a relationship sin. Although today is the day of excess and indulgence, the world has been counting down all week with costumes, parties, and parades. From South America to Europe, see the celebrations in pictures. Read more

Iraqi Mannequins Send a Moral Message of What Not to Wear


Updated 02/11/11 8:08 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Iraqi Mannequins Warn Women Against Sinful Clothing

Our fashion choices convey messages about who we are. In Iraq, more conservative forces are not always happy with what they see. Since Saddam Hussein's demise, the New York Times explains, religious values have penetrated the previously secular society. That's brought calls for segregated universities, the closure of liquor stores, and pressure for women to dress in clothes that "will not inflame Read more

Ted Haggard Chooses to Be the "Masturbation Guy" Over the Gay Guy


Updated 01/31/11 3:56 AM · Posted by · 9 comments

Ted Haggard GQ Profile

It's like the ultimate, awkward family photo, except this one has an agenda. It's to show just how not gay Ted Haggard, the defrocked evangelical minister of the New Life Church whose double life was exposed in 2006, is. Despite paying a masseuse for a massage, crystal meth (to enhance masturbation), and sex (but not sex, sex), reformed Ted told GQ he didn't do this because he was gay, he did Read more