World News and Trends: Cyberspace saturated with pornography
Pornography has become increasingly omnipresent on the Internet. An estimated quarter of all Internet searches are related to porn.
Nearly a fifth of the U.S. population searched for and likely watched smut in a recent month. That's nearly 60 million Americans.
Alarmingly, Internet sex is becoming more abnormal, grotesque and debased by the day. The various illicit categories are unmentionable in a Christian magazine. The apostle Paul stated: "And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness...For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret" (Ephesians 5:11-12). Tragically, while many men and some women are initially shocked at what they see on websites purveying such perversity, they can find themselves drawn in and hooked.
The intimate experience God intended to cement a lifelong love and attraction between husband and wife is thereby perverted into an unspeakable nightmare—debasing men and women, who are made in the image of God, into something subhuman as they sear their consciences by publicly performing illicit acts for money.
Sex between married partners should always be the most private of pleasurable human experiences. It should never be shared with anyone for any reason. If you want to understand the blessings God intended for His human creation in this most intimate of all of life's experiences, read our free booklet Marriage and Family: The Missing Dimension. (Sources: The Sunday Times Magazine [London], The Atlantic.)
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Good News Magazine: March - April 2011
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Jerold Aust
Jerold Aust has served in the ministry for 52 years, as a public speaker for 58 years, a published writer for 38 years, and is employed by UCG’s Media and Communications Services. He is a Senior Writer, interviewer, and editor for Beyond Today Magazine and has taught Speech Communication for UCG’s ministerial online program and the Book of Revelation for ABC.
Jerold holds a BA in theology from Ambassador College, Pasadena (1968), an MA in Communication from California State University, Fullerton (1995), a distance-learning Ph.D (2006), and a Famous Writers School diploma in non-fiction writing (1973). Additionally, he studied post-grad communication at University of Southern California (1995), radio, TV, voice-overs, and Public Relations at Fullerton College (1995-1996), and graduate communication at Wichita State University (1978). Jerold has taught communication at the University of South Alabama (7 years) and ABC (17 years). His published works include, Ronald Reagan’s Rhetoric: Metaphor as Persuasion and EZSpeakers: Public Speaking Made Easy in 7 Steps. Jerold's overarching goal is to share with humankind its incredible destiny!
John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
