{"id":2075,"date":"2007-04-18T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/a-chaste-morning.html"},"modified":"2007-04-18T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T12:04:02","slug":"a-chaste-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/04\/a-chaste-morning.html","title":{"rendered":"A chaste morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just returned from a presentation by Jason Evert<\/a>, well-known chastity speaker, given at a local high school – I let Katie have a morning off from her <\/em>school so she could go, which didn’t bother her a bit. <\/p>\n

I was quite impressed – I’d never heard Jason speak before, although I have heard other chastity speakers here and there, and I’d have to say that Jason has a gift and a presence that’s rare. He’s honest, speaks their language – and not in a lame way – he pulls it off – is very funny and gets all the right messages in there.  I’ve seen other speakers talk in front of large-school groups before, and there’s almost always an undercurrent of restlessness, even when (hard to believe) the topic is sexuality. But Evert knows his audience and basically doesn’t give them a chance to be restless. He doesn’t need my endorsement, being very popular already, but just my two cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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