In Helper by Design: God’s Perfect Plan for Women in Marrage, Elyse Fitzpatrick presents two extreme and opposing views some Christian women hold about what differentiates them from men. One view sees them as completely different from men in every way, while on the other end of the spectrum is the assertion that women are…
The spine of Rosaria Butterfield’s The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian world is the joyful, generous, simple, yet often excruciating call to open our lives in service to others. A repeated refrain is “strangers become neighbors, and neighbors become family.” The Christian call to love is a…
In Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and The Longings Of A Woman’s Heart, Christian authors Dannah Gresh and Dr. Juli Slattery argue that all women desire five basic things from men: To be cherished by a man To be protected by a strong man To rescue a man To be sexually alive, and To…
For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. – Genesis 2:24 (KJV) “The Genesis text calls what happens ‘cleaving.’ This archaic English term, which you can find in the King James Version, conveys the strength of the Hebrew word which…
I recently read Sex, Dating, and Relationships: A Fresh Approach by Gerald Hiestand and Jay Thomas. It’s a highly recommended read. According to Hiestand and Thomas, the Bible only presents three categories of relationships between any two human beings. We have the: Neighbor relationship (sex prohibited) Family relationship (sex prohibited) Marriage relationship (sex commanded) They also…
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