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Kirsten SandersFamilyMarriageFormationJournalSpring 2025

Forsaking All Others

To have at the end of your life one single story, a promise that was kept, would gesture to all the things you did not choose.

Zephram FosterMarriageSexuality

Marriage is a Thin Place

The church has long taught that there is a cosmic dimension to marriage.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyMarriageSexuality

Pandora, AI Girlfriends, and “Reborn” Babies

'Relationships' with AI girlfriends and 'reborn' babies will yield fruit—but whatever fruit that comes will be rotten and inhumane.

Jake MeadorFamilyChurchMarriageSexuality

Inane Evangelical Gender Debates, Briefly Summarized

On why we never ask deeper questions and instead mostly yell at heavily bearded conservative men on Twitter for making creepy comments about yoga pants

Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyGenderMarriage

What Is Beauty For?

Our world regards beauty as a kind of consumptive good, something to be bought, sold, and consumed. But beauty isn't a product; it's a gift with a purpose.

Jake MeadorGender RolesGenderMarriagecomplementarianism

The Evangelical Gender Crack-Up

The old complementarian evangelical package is falling apart, largely due to the flaws, simplifications, ambiguities, and gaps within its own principles.

Guest WriterMarriageTheology and PracticeSexualityearly marriageFormation

Marry or Burn?

Is it strange to urge people to marry young? Is Paul's suggestion in 1 Corinthians 7 fit for our present culture of dating?

Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage

The Questions of Gay Marriage: How serious a concern is homosexuality?

Gay marriage is a difficult subject. Here we take up the questions of gay marriage and whether the Bible thinks homosexuality is important.

Matthew Lee AndersonMarriage

The Questions of Gay Marriage: An Inquiring Essay, Part One

How should we think about gay marriage? What questions should we ask about it? Matthew Lee Anderson undertakes a reflection on the nature of gay marriage.

Brad LittlejohnMarriage

The Gay Marriage Debate: Tactical Withdrawal or a New Paradigm?

The gay marriage debate has reached a stalemate. Rather than embracing a "tactical withdrawal," evangelicals should find a new paradigm for engaging in it.

Guest WriterMarriage

What We Talk about When We Talk about Marriage: A Guest Post by Daniel Darling

Conservatives haven't done a good job of talking about marriage. Where should they go from here, now that gay marriage seems inevitable?

Kevin WhiteFamilyTheologyMarriageTheology and Practicechildlessnessinfertility

Is Unwilling Childlessness Necessarily a Call to Adopt?

Adoption is good, but should all childless couples feel called to adopt? We need to distinguish between what's good and what's required.