From the Shepherd’s Nook: Jesus, Marriage, Divorce (John Frye)
Our Friday From the Shepherd’s Nook post is, as always, by John Frye. Jesus sits and teaches as the new Moses correcting the distorted teachings and practices of Torah related to marriage and divorce....
View ArticleAmerica, Church Divorce Rates
Source: In her book, The Good News About Marriage, Feldhahn lays out what she found during her eight years of investigating the complicated, complex divorce statistics. First, the divorce rate is way...
View ArticleCohabitation and Marriage: A New Study with Revealing Results
Scott Stanley: In a new paper, Bowling Green State University sociologist Karen Guzzo analyzes how the odds of cohabitation leading to either getting married or breaking up have changed over the years....
View ArticleWhen the Wife is Happy…
Source: When the wife is happy with a long-term partnership, the husband is happier, no matter how he feels about the marriage. For marital quality, it seems the wife’s happiness matters more than the...
View ArticleThinking Ahead
Now that we are Anglicans we have become much more aware of the church calendar and, inasmuch as the good Rector Jay Greener and Curate Amanda Holm Rosengren invite me to join in on the...
View ArticleHis Greatest Imprints (by Jonathan Storment)
Time for our readers to offer a big congrats to Jonathan and Leslie for the arrival of their 4th child! If you aren’t from Churches of Christ, then you probably haven’t heard of the Siburt family, but...
View ArticleWifely Submission: Two Views
The first view, from Johanna Harris Tyler: Potential abuse. The proponents of male headship have a tough job to convince the watching world that the hierarchy at the centre of their vision for marriage...
View ArticleThe Changing Face of Friendship
A good reading in the history of friendship makes manifest that friendship, probably most especially in the 20th Century, has changed dramatically. If one reads, for instance, the great two chapters on...
View ArticleFormalized Friendships
One of the marks of “friendship” in our world is that they are the “freest, the least constrained, the least fixed and determined, of all human loves.” This from Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship,...
View ArticleFriendship Possibilities
Let us agree (1) that friendship as a common art, friendships between males and friendships between females, has fallen into neglect and (2) that there are more than solid theological and biblical...
View ArticleWhat is Love? (Jonathan Storment)
What Is Love? Some of the most poetic words ever written about love didn’t come from a wedding or romantic story, they came from a heated church argument. I have done a lot of weddings in my life, and...
View ArticleShedding Complementarianism (by Elizabeth K. Casey)
By Elizabeth K. Casey: For the past two years, I have been blogging on a variety of issues–and one specific issue I’ve written a lot on is the complementarian versus egalitarian marriage debate. I...
View ArticlePenny for your Thoughts
Ana Swanson, on the mathematics of choosing your mate: Image So how do you find the best one? Basically, you have to gamble. And as with most casino games, there’s a strong element of chance, but you...
View Article9Marks of the Truly Complementarian
I have been asked of late why I have posted so much about complementarianism. Beside the routine reposting of material from Christians for Biblical Equality, which often brings up the discussion, it...
View ArticleMary and Me and Complementarianism (by Ruth Tucker)
Mary and Me On May 4, 2016, Mary Kassian published a review of my book, Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife. Her review was in many ways similar to reviews of others who hold fast to the...
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