‘No Drama’ Divorces?
Is divorce primarily freedom, failure, or a mix of both? Does the gospel have any bearing on how we feel towards, and treat, divorces? Does how we see divorce affect the way we ‘do’ marriage as Christians?
On Not Crying Wolf
When I was a child, I was equally fascinated and terrified by Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. In it, villagers rebuke a young shepherd boy for his repeated prank of crying out in warning of a wolf when there was no wolf in sight. Finally the day came when there really was a wolf. “Wolf! Wolf! There’s a wolf!”, the boy yelled. But nobody came. Depending on which version of the fable you read, the story ends with either the sheep, or the boy himself, being devoured! As I said, fascinating and terrifying! The fable came to mind...
A Christian Guide to Dating Apps
I met my husband on a dating app. We’ve had a mixed reactions when we tell people how we met. My husband Tom apparently told his cousins we met through ‘mutual friends’, to avoid the awkwardness. We’ve had people acknowledge it’s just like a new form of speed dating, and even some encourage us for being proactive. It’s tricky being a conservative Christian but growing up in a society where there’s an app for everything. So I thought I would add my two cents as someone who owes her marriage to her phone. 1. Find an App where Religion...
Marriage and Mutuality
In the midst of a passage about marriage, Christ, the Church, headship and submission, the apostle Paul alludes to the love command: “love your neighbour as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18): In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (Ephesians 5:28) However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:33) The imaginative ethical reciprocity built into the love command appears to also be in the background of Paul’s discussion of marriage and singleness in 1...
Don’t Go Beyond What Is Written
The Scriptures are fully sufficient to guide us to salvation, the worship of God and the godly life. We do not need to supplement Scripture with human traditions or philosophy, as if it were incomplete. However, it is important to understand that Sola Scriptura does not demand a simple kind of biblicism—believing nothing but what individual texts explicitly teach—as if that were ever actually possible. As the Westminster Confession of Faith describes: The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good...
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