While dining at a local Italian restaurant with my 10-year-old daughter, she read an ad for an upcoming Valentine’s Day special, which sounded like serious romance to her. “You and Dad should come here for that,” she sagely advised. I told her that we didn’t usually do a lot for…  [more]

Editor's note: This is excerpted from Amy Frykholm's new book, "See Me Naked: Stories of Sexual Exile in American Christianity." Christians love to give each other advice on sexuality. If you wander into any Christian bookstore or peruse Christian magazines, you’ll find lots of such advice. Likewise, the Internet is…  [more]

For Martha, a single mother living in Mexico, life is not easy. Her husband left her two years ago. Now she works six days a week to provide for herself and her teenage daughter. Martha (whose named has been changed to provide anonymity) leaves early in the morning and comes…  [more]

Is it harder to get a job as a Christian pastor if you're single? A recent New York Times article exploring this topic has created quite a response in the Christian community, with some saying that pastoral search committees should be marriage-minded and others saying just the opposite. Is this…  [more]

“I came here looking for love.” That’s the sentence I’ve come accustomed to hearing each week after the latest woman is eliminated from "The Bachelor." Like many men across the country, I’ve found myself involved in the drama of this reality dating show thanks to the fact that my wife…  [more]