“Relationships” Articles

“ONE MORE TIME” reminds us of mortality, of the freedom that righting wrongs provides, and of the joy of long-term human connection.

But the idea that people go through a stage of “friends as family” and then graduate into “real” family is one I find to be a less-good story.

Erin and Hannah invite Rachel Pieh Jones to help us learn how to show up in real relationship despite our differences.

We’re heading back to the office, back to school, back to our faith communities. But after a year away, are we ready to show up?

Erin and Hannah invite Chris and Elizabeth McKinney for a conversation about loving your neighbors for their miniseries called Happy, Thankful, People.

7 Myths about Singleness casts a vision for how being single is not a second rate path in the kingdom of God.

We are defined not just by who we are, but by who we are in relationship to one another.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “A Fractured Inheritance.”

D. L. Mayfield recaps the latest episode of The Good Place, “The Ballad of Donkey Doug.”

God Friended Me may cause involuntary facepalms, but if you can watch through your fingers, you’ll see relationships that reflect the true, the beautiful, and yes, even the divine.

The beautiful thing about intentionality is that when you reach out, you just might find that people reach back.

Though we gravitate toward Midge’s beautiful and witty story of overcoming, it is modeled upon an American myth that to be free we must ultimately be unencumbered and successful.

In Sex in a Broken World, Paul Tripp carefully and pastorally tries to show readers a much better way.

The National’s latest, Sleep Well Beast, affirms that if heartbreak is particular to our times and places, to our own networks of relationships, then grace must be as well.

Practicing others-care isn’t instinctive, as self-care might be, but it is important.

What do we do with our imperfect virtue, our guilt, our pathetic attempts at love?