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March 2009

March 25, 2009

Romance and Marriage Vows

David Blankenhorn, in a column in 1997 (and anthologized in a book my class is...

February 2009

February 14, 2009

Valentine’s Day and the Song of Songs

The Song of Solomon is a love song between lovers and for lovers. Perhaps it...

October 2007

October 16, 2007

A Personal Story

Here is a letter sent to us. Any comment of mine is worthless. Scot: Thank...

July 2007

July 30, 2007

Augustine on the Protestant Sex Ethic

Protestants today may be thoroughly surprised to learn that things weren't always so permissive and...

June 2007

June 19, 2007

Marriage as a Seamless Story

We are all for churches and Christians extending mercy to the divorced, but we are...

June 08, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 44

We finish the Song of Solomon today. The Song ends with the woman summoning her...

June 07, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 43

And now her shepherd lover responds back: 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he...

June 06, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 42

Suddenly the woman turns to her ("their") sister, who is young. She describes her sister's...

June 05, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 41

The woman, after declaring where it was that their love was first aroused, now suddenly...

June 04, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 40

The woman speaks in 8:5b through 8:10, and then her shepherd love speaks in 8:11-13...

May 2007

May 24, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 39

As at 3:1-5, the woman wants to take her lover to her mother's home, and...

May 23, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 38

Chp 8 of the Song of Songs is a dialogue about love and this chp...

May 21, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 36

The shepherd lover, whom I am not convinced is Solomon but who is insteadn the...

May 18, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 35

This week the following verses (6:4-5), from the beginning of the week, struck me: You...

May 17, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 34

The man, with his love back with him, extols her physical beauty once again. Her...

May 16, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 33

The following lines are a puzzle for interpreters. Who is saying these words? 6:11 I...

May 15, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 32

The man, having extolled the beauty of his lover as that of a royal city...

May 14, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 31

The Song of Songs is a pastiche of songs and episodes. After the Shulamite woman...

May 11, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 30

The narrative of Song of Songs 5:2--6:3 surprises. The woman is in bed, her lover...

May 10, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 29

The narrative that gives rise to the extolling by the woman of her lover's physical...

May 09, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 28

An assignment for you. The woman has just described her lover's physical attributes; he described...

May 08, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 27

The women of Jerusalem ask the young yearning lover-woman what's so special about her lover,...

May 07, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 26

Here's a question the women of Jerusalem ask the woman who is seeking to find...

May 04, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 25

Song of Songs 5:2-8 tells a story of invitation, delay, disappointment and search -- the...

May 02, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 23

Whether in her dream or in the reality of being awakened from a dream, the...

May 01, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 22

The shepherd's lover now will give a second long speech; the first one was in...

April 2007

April 30, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 21

The young shepherd lover continues his delight in his lover by cmparing her to his...

April 27, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 20

A word for men ... the Song of Songs brings into poetic imagery the delight...

April 25, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 18

The shepherd-lover announces his intent in 4:6 in words that are charged with emotion that...

April 24, 2007

Love in the Key of Delight 17

You can't read the following verses (Song 4:1-5) without both knowing just exactly what the...