Category: Marriage
Homosexuality, Sojourners, and Me
Sojourners Magazine has a piece up today about the shifting attitudes toward homosexuality among many young evangelicals. I sound the conservative note in the piece, though it comes out a bit warbled: Still, it seems that for the majority of...
What the Social Sciences Can (and Can’t) Tell us about Gay Unions
Mark Regnerus recently published a new study comparing children raised within traditional marriages with those who were not. The study has generated a bit of discussion as people have attempted to sort out what it all might mean—or not mean—for...
Should the church continue to object to gay marriage?
That was the question that Leadership Journal asked me to write about, so write about it I did. At its core, the question of gay marriage is not simply one of tax benefits or social prestige: it is a question...
The Marriage Plot and the Rise of Memoir
Mark Bauerlein has some penetrating thoughts about how individualism has corroded the novel: A good plot needs conflict, an unsettled situation whose outcome we care about. For more than two centuries, the theme of “individual vs. society” provided a ready...
Nothing Behind the Curtain – Reflections on a Wedding
Cross-posted at Notes from a Small Place, where I’ve had several posts related to marriage lately, hence the disclaimer below. Disclaimer: I kinda-sorta want to apologize to people who find so many marriage posts annoying or are bothered by sentimentality....
Love, Mimicry, and Men
While researching for an article on marriage that I am writing, I came upon this abstract: Recent studies have found that mimicking the verbal and nonverbal behavior of strangers enhances their liking of the individual who mimicked them. An experiment...
The (Mis)Use of C.S. Lewis by Christian Libertarians
As the idea of gay marriage has become increasingly acceptable in American culture and as the legal institutions have begun to accommodate it, it has become increasingly popular among evangelical Christians to argue for a complete separation of Church and...
A Midsummer Night’s Dance: Love’s Beauty and Roles
The Pacific Northwest Ballet’s (PNB) performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream lifted a corner of the veil between plodding human beings and the world of fairies. The stage was set with magnificent roses and deliciously mysterious lights even before the...
A Wedding Homily
Dr. John Mark Reynolds has posted the homily from our wedding on his blog–I was planning to also make it the first post for me as well. In essence, Dr. Reynolds said for our wedding exactly what I had been...