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March 2013

March 11, 2013

Marriage Tension: Chores

From WENDY KLEIN, CAROLINA IZQUIERDO, & THOMAS N. BRADBURY: Insightful. Couples are composed of individuals who...

February 2013

February 15, 2013

Relationships Have Changed

This old piece from Esquire magazine from 1949 shows how much has changed. This can...

February 06, 2013

What Men Want

From USAToday: And according to a broad national survey of almost 5,500 unattached adults 21...

December 2012

December 24, 2012

What is Love?

Sonja Lyubomirsky's principal statements about love follow: She distinguishes "new" love from "companionate" love... What...

November 2012

November 14, 2012

Complementarianism and Darwinism

How has a knowledge of history, church history, theological history, ecclesial history shaped your thinking...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

Four Relationship Defeaters

From Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How can he tell who will split up? There...

September 2012

September 12, 2012

What Would You Say?

A letter from a writer, appropriately edited to bury identification: The question is open for...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Safe Sex: Is there such a thing?

Michael Hidalgo says No. (Follow his twitter feed here: @michaelhidalgo) Here is his post: We...

June 07, 2012

Birth Control

Albert Mohler, President of Southern Seminary, opens up a big bag of issues in his...

May 2012

May 15, 2012

The Goodness of Singleness

Tim and Kathy Keller buck a trend that I have heard in the last decade,...

May 11, 2012

That Word

Kathy Keller defines "submission" so much it no longer means submission. Which is just the...

May 08, 2012

Yes, Call it what it is: Patriarchy

For a long time I have said a number of times that I don't like...

May 08, 2012

Cracks in the Bridge

From a distance the bridge looks healthy, even attractive. Up close, and under the eyes...

May 02, 2012

Beyond the Clouds

I joke with my friends from Seattle that I have heard there are mountains in...

April 2012

April 30, 2012

Marriage as Covenant

Marriage is like an A-frame house. The two grow closer together to form one life...

April 25, 2012

What Makes Marriage Optimal?

Let's begin with a question: What is the element or dimension or ingredient that makes...

April 23, 2012

An Inexpressible Treasure

To talk about marriage requires wisdom. Wisdom is learning to live in God's world in...

March 2012

March 24, 2012

Divorce-Proofing a Marriage

Here's a news item by Kathy Benjamin on stats and divorce, and each has a...

March 19, 2012

Divorce Advice

By Russell Moore: Dear Dr. Moore, My wife and I are at an impasse. There's...

March 15, 2012

Early Marriage Stressors

From USAToday: Good advice? Don’t let stress sabotage your relationship, says Thomas Bradbury, co-founder of...

March 09, 2012

Gray Divorce — Sad

From WSJ: For the new generation of empty-nesters, divorce is increasingly common. Among people ages...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

The Story is Everything

The Story we tell ourselves, or the Story in which we are living, or the...

February 17, 2012

Single, and Not Happy about it

From Ellen McCarthy: A good post on crashing some stereotypes, and a good reminder to...

February 01, 2012

The Secret to Marriage

From Phil Huber, at New Wineskins: I just finished reading Happily Ever After: Six Secrets to...

October 2011

October 25, 2011

Is Marriage Overblown? (RJS)

Scot brought an article to my attention a few weeks ago - with little to...

October 05, 2011

Confusion about Love

By Mary Elizabeth Williams, who needs to do more thinking about what love is (clue:...

February 2011

February 11, 2011

What do you think?

Carolyn Hax was sent this note. How would you respond? I disagree with her substantively....

January 2011

January 05, 2011

The “Me” Marriage

From NYTimes and the Sustainable Marriage Quiz (which measures self-expansion). OK, what do you think...

December 2010

December 09, 2010

Churches need more focus on Marriage

We need to be sensitive to singleness but we also need to be aware of...

December 01, 2010

The Church and Singleness: by Chuck DeGroat

This post is by Chuck DeGroat; I was sent a link by a friend and...