Mutual Submission in Disney’s “Tangled”
Editor’s Note: This is the Commentary Grand Prize Winner from CBE’s 2025 Writing Competition. Enjoy! When my friend invited me to join her to discuss
January 21, 2026
Topic: Dating
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Keeping God’s Big Picture in Mind When Power Threatens Relationships: A Sermon on 1 Peter 2:18–3:7
When I visit this congregation with which I’ve had a long relationship,1 there are always two things in my mind—the big picture and the little
November 1, 2024
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Resources for Churches
Editor’s Note: October in the United States has been designated Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As part of that tradition, the Mutuality blog will be publishing
October 2, 2024
Book Review: She Deserves Better: Raising Girls to Resist Toxic Teachings on Sex, Self, and Speaking Up
After finishing their survey and best-selling book The Great Sex Rescue, testing popular Christian teachings about marriage and sex and empirically demonstrating the harm caused
September 13, 2023
Is This Safe to Drink? Thoughts on Our Thirst for Intimacy
“He won’t have sex with me.” After only a year of marriage the newlywed couple I had provided pre-marital counseling for was facing a significant
September 5, 2022
In Vain Pursuit: How Courtship Culture Trained Us to Disregard Consent
Editor’s note: This is a CBE 2020 Writing Contest honorable mention. Enjoy! Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer,
April 28, 2021
It’s Time for a Sexual Ethic Jesus Might Have Actually Preached
Consent: a word so bland I once found it almost ugly. Why would I base my framework for romantic relationships on a word as flippant
June 19, 2019
Lessons from Eliezer: What an Old Testament Matchmaker Has to Say About Egalitarian Dating
Dating is difficult in today’s culture. As I have counseled single women and men through the years, I often heard pleas for help to find
June 19, 2019
What If Singleness Isn’t Failure?
It’s hard when every break up feels like a failure. That is what no one tells you about being single in the church. We are
June 19, 2019
Welcome to the Jungle: The Dating Adventures of a Fifty-Something Egalitarian
After surviving a tumultuous divorce, I found myself in my fifties, newly single and surveying an unknown dating landscape. After embracing an egalitarian viewpoint in
June 19, 2019