The Office is well past its prime, but tonight’s series finale has longtime (and long-suffering) fans like me lamenting the end, even if the end may be a bit overdue. Although the show struggled in the wake of Steve Carell’s departure, this final season has been the best since Carell… [more]
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What science gets right - and wrong - about love
In an Atlantic piece provocatively titled “There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love (According to Science),” researcher Barbara Fredrickson is cited as suggesting that love is neither a “long-lasting, continually present emotion that sustains a marriage” nor “the yearning and passion that characterizes young love.” Instead, it is what Fredrickson… [more]
Why Christians shouldn’t be so snooty about marriage contracts
What is marriage? Is it a gift from God that serves as a means of radiating the mystery of His beauty through two people whom He has made one flesh? Or is it a business arrangement between two parties that serves the purpose of organizing a society and creating a… [more]
Rachel Held Evans’ year of ‘biblical womanhood’
My first encounter with “biblical womanhood” happened in college, when there were whispers around the dormitory about whether God wanted young ladies at a Christian university to run for student body president. Apparently, there were rules about such things, rules that the apostle Paul wrote down in a letter to… [more]
Why the real challenge to marriage is heterosexual
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared on the Cardus blog. Marriage has a heterosexual problem. When the termites have done their work on the foundations of the home, it doesn’t take much to knock it down. Such is the case of traditional marriage. It does not face a homosexual crisis… [more]
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JKana I think that what the Christian marriage symbolizes must be lived out in Christian community as a witness to a watching world that traditional, lifelong-covenant marriage is the godly way of doing things.
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Elizabeth Anne Hamilton God created sex, so why should we be unable to talk about it in an appropriate manner?
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Moherring I think the story of Ruth and Boaz is incredibly romantic ... The part where Ruth lies down at Boaz's feet just melts my heart. I like to imagine that throughout their married lives she did that from time to time.
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pcg Christianity never promises to 'protect us from abuse, manipulation, objectification and betrayal.' In fact, it promises that we will be abused, manipulated, HATED. But Jesus also promises that he has overcome such things, and that one day those things will be swept away.
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