As a youth pastor, I’ve talked with countless young couples that want to know what God has to say about relationships. Although they humor my rants about commitment and transparency, they really want to know how close they can get to having sex without having God strike them dead. I don’t blame them. I wanted…
There are a number of articles that have been published digging into how the social fabric of our culture is changing based on social media. The Atlantic published an article called “Is Facebook Making us Lonely?,” which is a long read but very challenging to our understanding about the impact of technology and social media. Smart phones,…
The best and worst (read: most squirm-inducing) part of premarital counseling was when our pastor asked us to read Ephesians 5:22-33 and explain what it meant to us. If you are engaged or newly wed, or a woman, I don’t need to tell you this is the passage that begins, “Wives submit to your husbands….”…
Americans adore romance. Almost all of us long to fall truly, deeply, madly in love sometime in our lives. Inspired by cultural myth, movies, magazines and music—according to one count, some 83 percent of pop songs lilt about romance—we search for love in campuses, offices, clubs, fitness gyms and internet sites offering warehouse quantities of…
Set during World War II, the movie Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (don’t judge me; I simply cannot get enough of these stories) follows Anne as she travels to France, a volunteer for the Red Cross, on a search for her lost soldier husband, Gill. Her catalyst—A packet of returned letters she had written to…
