Christian Porn: Tackling the Elephant in the Pews
by Clint Rainey
Some pastors view Super Bowl Sunday and church attendance as inverses—if the first, less of the second. (The joke is pastors conclude their sermons the week before that second holiest of Sundays with “See you in two weeks.”) But this year, replete with bizarre props, attracting media attention like iron filings, Pastor Craig Gross decided to try riding on the game’s coattails to a victorious inverse of his own: Christians and porn use.
Through XXXChurch.com, the “#1 Christian porn site,” Gross runs Porn Sunday—this year, for the first time, Super Porn Sunday—to get churches to confront Christian porn use, what his ministry calls the “elephant in the pews.” For the weekend’s festivities, he moved his hub from Las Vegas to Dallas, home of Super Bowl XLV, where he tweeted pics of his car in the city’s freak snowstorm and complained about Texans he believes didn’t know how to drive in it. Sunday, he was 30 miles away from Cowboys Stadium in the Addison Conference Center. More than 350 church services that morning simulcast a 35-minute video he put together with a lineup of NFL players: quarterbacks Matt Hasselbeck and John Kitna (who tells us his Pandora’s porn box opened with Janet Jackson’s exposed breast) and Ryan Pickett, the Packers’ defensive end. “I would love to have been with you guys today,” he says at the start of the tape. “But fortunately, I’m a little busy.” Continue Reading →