Parents today are the first generation to raise kids in a digitally connected, porn-saturated world. Porn can be accessed in locker rooms, cafeterias, classrooms, and bedrooms—anywhere kids have access to digital devices. Worse yet, pornography that was once considered fringe has become increasingly mainstream. All this is misshaping children’s understanding of sexuality, stunting their capacity to process emotions, and crippling their ability to form long-term relationships. In our upcoming Meet the Experts, Daniel Weiss and Josh Glaser offer practical and spiritual guidance for parents seeking to help their teens navigate this pornographic digital landscape. Combining the latest research with personal and professional experience to guide families into the goodness for which God created us all, the authors skillfully outline the steps necessary for parents to move beyond merely surviving pornography’s challenges onto a rewarding path where their children can truly thrive.
About our Experts:
Daniel Weiss is a writer, speaker, and visionary — passionate about tackling tough questions about sexual identity with depth and compassion. He has spent two decades helping church and community leaders, educators and policy makers address complex situations surrounding sexual brokenness with hope and life-giving truth.
In 2012, Daniel established The Brushfires Foundation (now Sexual Integrity Leaders) to equip Christian leaders to foster sexual integrity in their churches and communities. In 2017, Daniel headed a coalition of two dozen organizations that contracted Barn Group to conduct original research on how pastors and churches were addressing sexual issues. He serves as lead author of Sexuality & the Church in America, a series of reports based on this Barna research.
Daniel is coauthor of Treading Boldly Through a Pornographic World: A Field Guide for Parents (Salem, 2021) and has authored chapters in the books The Decalogue Project: Disciples from Six Continents Engage God’s Ten Commandments and Opposing Viewpoints: Sexual Violence. Other writings have appeared in The Federalist, The Washington Times, The Denver Post, Citizen, and BreakPoint.com, among others. He has given hundreds of print and radio interviews and has shared the air with radio hosts Alan Colmes, Frank Pastore, Janet Mefford, and many others. Additionally, he is featured prominently in the documentary film The Heart of the Matter: Finding Light in the Darkness of Pornography Addiction and has appeared on the Focus on the Family daily broadcast with Jim Daly.
Daniel has given keynote addresses at In the Image of God: A Christian Vision of Love and Marriage at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the Utah Coalition Against Pornography conference in St, George, Utah. He has also presented at the Capitol Hill Summit on Pornography: Obscenity Enforcement, Corporate Participation and Violence against Women and Children and the Conference on Pornography at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Prior to founding The Brushfires Foundation in 2012 and serving as its president, Daniel was the senior analyst for media and sexuality and social issues manager with Focus on the Family for nearly nine years.
Daniel and his wife, Krista, live with their five children on the family farm in rural Wisconsin.
Josh Glaser is the Executive Director of Regeneration, where he and his staff equip men and women to live out God’s good, holy, and beautiful design for relationships and sexuality. He is the creator of Awaken, a four-part discipleship series for men pursuing sexual integrity, the host of the Becoming Whole podcast, and co-author of Treading Boldly through a Pornographic World: A Field Guide for Parents. Josh has been married to his wife, Jamie, for over twenty years, and together they have six children. In his free time he enjoys Ultimate frisbee, home-improvement, and lingering over a meal with good friends. For more of Josh’s writing and ministry, visit RegenerationMinistries.org.Â
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