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That They May Be One
By: Katie Driver | September 4, 2014
A church should resemble a healthy family, in which all relationships—regardless of gender or marital status—are deeply valued.
A Rose by Any Other Name...
By: Susan Harris Howell | July 19, 2014
While growing up in the 1960s, I heard women in our neighborhood complain about being called housewives. “I am not married to a house!” they would say. Of course the term typically meant that they were wives who spent their time caring for a house and those in it. But still, it offended these women [...]
Wives, "Respect" Your Husbands
By: Trevor Sykes | July 12, 2014
From time to time we hear of the responsibilities outlined in Ephesians 5 verses 22 - 33 concerning husbands and wives respectively. Often the language gets reduced to a catch phrase like, "women want to be loved and men need respect." It is as if this phrase defines all women and all men for all time.
TOGETHER: Reclaiming Co-Leadership in Marriage
By: tim+anne evans | June 11, 2014
The majority of marriage sermons, books, and seminars focus on different infallible interpretations of a handful of controversial marriage texts. This often results in confusion surrounding the issues of equality, headship, submission, and authority.
On Being a Woman After God's Own Heart: Biblical Womanhood, or Cultural Womanhood?
By: Jenny Rae Armstrong | June 5, 2014
The women’s Bible study I was attending was going through A Woman After God’s Own Heart by Elizabeth George, one of those guides to “biblical womanhood” that offered a few good insights, but mostly just made me feel guilty and inadequate about my fledgling homemaking skills. Something about the theology seemed off, but [...]
Tie-Breaker
By: Wendy Herrmann Smith | April 6, 2014
“Wives, submit to your husbands,” says Ephesians 5:22. Just be careful not to commit idolatry while you’re submitting.
If Men Give Love to Get Sex
By: Micah Murray | March 6, 2014
I’ve always wanted to get it right the first time. I don’t like to make mistakes. I don’t like to learn from experience; I’d rather learn from books. So when I was getting ready to propose to the girl who would become my wife, I read everything I could about how [...]
Right Answers, Wrong Questions
By: Susan Harris Howell | February 26, 2014
One reason that questions about men and women continue to confound us, I’m convinced, is that we’re asking the wrong questions, which tend to lead us to inadequate answers. So in an effort to un-confound things, I offer the following tweaked questions (TQ) so we can move toward answers that are more effective [...]
When Labels Create Division
By: Kayla White | February 6, 2014
A summer issue of Time magazine caught my eye with the title: “The Childfree Life: When Having it All Means Not Having Children” by Lauren Sandler. The link will not provide you with the full article, so I encourage you to either purchase the issue online or run by your favorite local bookstore/library [...]
"Belay On": Reflections on Rock Climbing and Marriage
February 5, 2014
When we were engaged, we read books and met with our pastor, and understandably, both were invaluably helpful and hilariously uncomfortable. We also were lucky enough to stumble upon three key principles for a partnership in marriage through a hobby we both love: rock climbing. They are communication, trust, and give and take.