The Intersection of Faith and Culture
It was quite the weekend for my friends. On Friday, my cousin asked his girlfriend’s father for permission to tie the knot. They’ll be married within the year. On Saturday evening, my roommate asked his girlfriend to marry him. They’re walking down the aisle in eight months. As we were […]
Three days ago, Seth Adam Smith published a blog post entitled “Marriage Isn’t For You” that went viral (Seth says it has over four million views so far). His cleverly titled post explained that marriage isn’t about your own happiness, but about your spouse’s happiness. This is my response to […]
It’s on the warm end of a cloudless October morning. I’m riding a ferry from the end of Rhode Island to an island with a year-round population of about 1,000. I’m sitting beside the window, feeling my heart begin to race with that precipitate giddiness I used to feel when […]
On the desk in my apartment sits a great big canvas that I painted myself that reads: “It is well with my soul.” I love the old hymn; I need to be reminded of those words every day. My desk is always the most cluttered space in my apartment. If […]
1. Which Christian writer likely had an illicit affair with the mother of a deceased friend and then, after his conversion to Christianity, entered into a secret marriage (he didn’t even tell his closest friends about it) with an American woman to help her gain British citizenship? 2. Which theologian […]
Remember the days before we all had smartphones? You know, back when people used to sit down and talk to each other? Just people having a real conversation. Relationships were built on that type of communication only 20 years ago. The way we interact has changed dramatically in the last […]
