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May 2016

May 12, 2016

Mary and Me and Complementarianism (by Ruth Tucker)

Mary and Me On May 4, 2016, Mary Kassian published a review of my book,...

May 02, 2016

9Marks of the Truly Complementarian

I have been asked of late why I have posted so much about complementarianism. Beside...

March 2016

March 01, 2016

Penny for your Thoughts

Ana Swanson, on the mathematics of choosing your mate: Image So how do you find the...

August 2015

August 10, 2015

Shedding Complementarianism (by Elizabeth K. Casey)

By Elizabeth K. Casey: For the past two years, I have been blogging on a...

July 2015

July 15, 2015

What is Love? (Jonathan Storment)

What Is Love? Some of the most poetic words ever written about love didn’t come...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Friendship Possibilities

Let us agree (1) that friendship as a common art, friendships between males and friendships...

June 09, 2015

Formalized Friendships

One of the marks of "friendship" in our world is that they are the "freest,...

June 04, 2015

The Changing Face of Friendship

A good reading in the history of friendship makes manifest that friendship, probably most especially...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Wifely Submission: Two Views

The first view, from Johanna Harris Tyler: Potential abuse. The proponents of male headship have...

October 2014

October 29, 2014

His Greatest Imprints (by Jonathan Storment)

Time for our readers to offer a big congrats to Jonathan and Leslie for the...

October 08, 2014

Thinking Ahead

Now that we are Anglicans we have become much more aware of the church calendar...

September 2014

September 15, 2014

When the Wife is Happy…

Source: When the wife is happy with a long-term partnership, the husband is happier, no...

August 2014

August 02, 2014

Cohabitation and Marriage: A New Study with Revealing Results

Scott Stanley: In a new paper, Bowling Green State University sociologist Karen Guzzo analyzes how...

July 2014

July 24, 2014

A Good Infograph about Divorce

Source: BestCounselingDegrees.net

July 03, 2014

America, Church Divorce Rates

Source: In her book, The Good News About Marriage, Feldhahn lays out what she found during...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

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...

June 05, 2014

Loveology: A Review

This review is by a person who has thought about the topic and by a...

April 2014

April 17, 2014

Love-ology

We need books on love, and we need books on marriage, and what we most...

April 12, 2014

Why Millennials are Not Marrying (Corrie Mitchell)

Source 1. We’re driven by our careers. 2. True love isn’t waiting. 3. Men are...

March 2014

March 04, 2014

Jesus, Paul and Grounds for Divorce

At the Ecclesia church planter's gathering last week Bill Webb presented on the redemptive movement...

February 2014

February 21, 2014

Perceiving Commitment Levels of Co-habitation

From LiveScience: Marriage is linked with numerous health benefits that simply cohabiting doesn't seem to provide. Now,...

February 14, 2014

This Pope is Different, a Valentine Message from Francis

Source Today, everything is changing rapidly and nothing lasts for long. This sort of mentality...

February 12, 2014

Sandra Stanley on Marriage Words

Sandra Stanley's wise words about words: While nothing was dramatically wrong in their relationship, they...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Emotional Modesty

From Holly Gerth, a conversation starter: A few weeks ago a friend of mine were...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Marriage Pitfalls (by Jim Martin)

My good friend, Jim Martin, VP at Harding Graduate School, wrote this up the other...

September 2013

September 29, 2013

Ann’s Encouraging Words

From Ann Voskamp: There’s a world that wants to force women into smothering plastic molds...

June 2013

June 09, 2013

What is Love?

Stephen Post: Love manifests itself in different ways, all of which are necessary and useful....

April 2013

April 23, 2013

Can We Read One Another’s Minds? Andrew Root Says Yes

We all know the experience of the irresistible nature of yawning -- when someone we...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

The Marriage Issue

David Frum may well have it nailed: The marriage issue, Frum is arguing, needs to...

March 12, 2013

The Brownson Challenge

At the heart of the traditional view of same-sex relations is "gender complementarity." That is,...