Let’s Talk About The Da Vinci Code Movies (and How God Uses Us Despite Ourselves)
These three movies are underrated, unappreciated, and mired in theological debate. But such disputes seem to miss the point.
Redeeming Love Does a Disservice to Hosea and to Women
Conflating the relentless love of God in a literalistic manner with the romantic love of a man and woman is harmful.
Mixing Faith and Feminism: A Reaction to Bonnie Garmus’s Lessons in Chemistry
How can we better our culture to make God’s ideal plans easier to follow, and not just for those who are privileged?
Marrying for Love? Marcia A. Zug’s You’ll Do and the Problem of Marital Privilege (Part 2)
We keep on using the word “marriage,” but it no longer means what we think it means.
Why Marry? Marcia A. Zug’s You’ll Do Explores the Strange and Surprising Reasons (Part 1)
I never knew that American marriages had such a checkered history.
Indian Matchmaking: What’s It Like to Look for Love the Old-Fashioned Way?
Netflix’s hit reality TV series reveals how many of our beliefs and practices regarding marriage are time-bound historical phenomena, not unchanging universal ideals.
You Hurt My Feelings and the Fallout of Little White Lies
Left to our tendencies toward comfort, we often use each other’s love to insulate us from the harshness of the world: we hide behind false encouragements.
The Restoration of Romance
Sarah Russell’s poem poses as a meditation on love and longing for one’s spouse, but in fact exposes the extent of our culture’s decay with regard to the self-giving necessary to create and sustain romantic relationships.
Something New under the Sun: Hyper-Reality and Pornography
Christians can ignore hyper-real pornography to our peril, respond to it unwisely, or work to understand and countervail its sexual destruction that already is at work in our society and our churches.
Double Vision: Greta Gerwig’s Little Women Shows Us the Goodness of Different Ways of Life
Gerwig’s recent adaptation of Little Women echoes the Bible’s ability to hold within its pages quite a variety of ideas on marriage and singleness.
Breaking the Marriage Idol by Kutter Callaway, Free for CAPC Members
Marriage should not be the norm that orients the communal life of the church.
Love among the Metal Chickens
We pay lip service to the idea that no one is truly perfect, but do we really believe it?
Dirty Dancing and Shrugging off the Dance Floor
My tears at Dirty Dancing stem from all that I’ve been told about being single.
Persuasion 101: Marital Bliss Begins with Discipleship, with BJ Thompson
Erin Straza, Hannah Anderson, and BJ Thompson discuss the building blocks for strong marriages and how marriage itself is the backdrop for discipleship.
Moving Past the Purity Movement
It’s time to find a way past the Purity Movement that helps us fuse what we know about sex with what we know about God and how he wants us to live.
Dream Weddings and Our Search for Wholeness
What we are looking for on our wedding day, and what can seem elusive in marriage, is a sense of being complete and full.
