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Gary Thomas on "Sacred Marriage"
After reviewing “Sacred Marriage,” an insightful book suggesting that Christians would do well to view their marriages as a means to holiness, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a thoughtful response from the author, Gary Thomas. His remarks are published...
Review: Sacred Marriage
Gary Thomas’ Sacred Marriage is a well-reasoned and thoughtful response to the centuries-old tradition of viewing spiritual formation as primarily taking place between an individual and God—a tradition that often celebrates being celibate while marginalizing marriage. It is also fundamentally...
Marriage and the Sacredness of Joy
The internets were all atwitter today with the latest stunt pulled on…Twitter. Yes, someone tweeted his nuptials. Immediately after being pronounced man and wife, he pulled out his cell phone–and gave his now-wife hers–and they updated their status’ together. The...
Why I am Opposed to Gay Marriage
Preface “I will always love you.”
Sacred Loneliness and Sacred Comfort: A Review of Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Lila’
Jonathan McGregor is a PhD candidate in English and American Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where he’s writing about twentieth-century American literary intellectuals and Christian social thought. You can follow him on Twitter. There’s a moment in...
Bullets, Cremains, and the Concept of the Sacred
I wish the story was a joke, but it wasn’t. A few weeks back, not long after Steve Jobs died, a story went around about a company named, of all things, Holy Smokes will take the cremains of your loved...
A “hubbub” on Marriage with Tony Jones & Lisa Miller
There is a “hubbub” afoot on whether clergy should perform weddings on behalf of the state. The “hubbub” is fomented mostly by Tony Jones, who refuses to perform weddings on behalf of the state or have his own marriage recognized by...
The Politicization of Marriage: Nussbaum, George, and Rowe on the Gay Marriage Question
Martha Nussbaum’s recent defense of homosexual marriage in Dissent Magazine is one of the better defenses of homosexual marriage that I have read, and I suggest slogging through the whole thing. But it is, perhaps, most valuable for revealing that...
On Metaphysical Conservatism and the Problem of Marriage
It is an odd fact about American culture and the gay marriage debate that while conservatives are winning (at least for the moment) the public opinion battle, they are losing the intellectual war. While I have hope that this will...
Marriage as a Spiritual Discipline
Despite roundly panning Gary Thomas’ book Sacred Marriage last week for it’s fundamentally questionable premise, I have to admit that he has a lot of good things to say in response to the historic trend among Christians to look down...