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Book Review: Breaking the Marriage Idol
By: Andrea Kulberg | December 11, 2018
In Breaking the Marriage Idol, Kutter Calloway describes how the modern church has become distracted by pagan norms for sexual expression and marriage, and why this contributes to our idealization of marriage and the marginalization of unmarried persons. Arguing that the church has bought in to the Hollywood notion that marriage is the antidote to [...]
Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms
By: Kutter Callaway | December 10, 2018
Kutter Callaway considers why marriage, which is a blessing from God, shouldn't be expected or required of all Christians. Through an examination of Scripture, cultural analysis, and personal accounts, he reflects on how our narratives have limited our understanding of marriage and obscured our view of the life-giving and kingdom-serving roles of single people in [...]
Book Review: Gender Rolitis: Redeem Unhealthy Gender Roles
By: Cynthia Mitchell | November 8, 2018
In his book Gender Rolitis: Redeem Unhealthy Gender Roles, Kirk E. Farnsworth uses scripture to examine the dangers of gender-based hierarchy and explores the merits of gifts-based partnership. Included are resources for identifiying spiritual gifts, passions, abilities, traits, and life experiences which might be used to identify and pursue one's calling.
Gender Rolitis: Redeem Unhealthy Gender Roles
By: Kirk E. Farnsworth | November 7, 2018
Farnsworth argues that when it comes to gender roles, "too often we turn to secondary writing, our own faulty reasoning, or passing along misinterpretation as truth." The book attempts to illuminate wrong assumptions, examine their implications, and propose a different path forward.
What I Wish the Church Had Told My Husband and Me About Sex and Consent
By: Christine Woolgar | November 5, 2018
“Do you want a divorce?” My husband was momentarily speechless. From the earliest days of our marriage, we struggled with sex. By the time I asked the question that so shocked my husband, it was apparent that we couldn’t resolve the issue by talking to each other or to our friends or by reading [...]
Marriage Ideology and Decision-Making
By: Susan Harris Howell, Bethany Lester, Alayna Owens | October 31, 2018
This article reports on a study of the ideologies and decision-making of Christian married couples. We specifically explored the beliefs these couples held regarding decision-making at the beginning of their marriages, those they currently hold, and what prompted any changes in those beliefs across time.
Growing Healthy and Equal Marriage Partnerships (Finnish, English)
By: Lynley Giles | October 26, 2018
This workshop explores how to grow a marriage relationship in which both parties have a voice and decisions are made jointly.
Created for Partnership ... Especially through Mutual Intimacy (Finnish, English)
By: Patti Ricotta | October 23, 2018
When rightly understood, Gen. 2:24-25 and Eph. 5: 21-33 provide an almost formula-like description for a pleasurable, loving, faithful marriage of oneness built on equality and mutuality. Modern science teaches what the writers of Genesis and Ephesians could not have known.
The Good News About Sex After Marriage: You Can Still Say "No"
By: Lisa Bartelt | September 26, 2018
“If you don’t have sex with your husband anytime he wants, he’ll find it somewhere else.” Fresh out of college and a new Christian, this was my introduction to what I thought was the “biblical” approach to marriage.
When Gender Roles Don’t Work: How One Couple and Their Sons Became Egalitarians
By: Jodi Hansen, David Hansen | September 5, 2018
We spent many years of our marriage and raised our sons in a church that sought to form men into manly Christian leaders and women into submissive followers. Thankfully, we realized that model didn’t make sense for our marriage or for our sons.