A valued congregant once complained that I talk about sex too much. I sympathize with her. It’s a “touchy” topic. It stirs our hurts and hopes, our anxieties and arousals, our loneliness and lovingness. Is it the best of life, or is it what Andy Warhol quipped, “the biggest nothing there is”? Fair warning: I won’t settle these stirrings. Because I get a weekly report from Mailchimp on how few or many open and read this site, I know hardly any do. It takes days…
“These things abide: faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor. 13:13) “Love, oh love, you crazy love.” Love is the cause and core of being human. Lusty love, luscious love, languid love, lively love, lovely love, we yearn for love, go wild in love, grow stale in love, grant our love, give it, get it, grasp it, lose it, find it, make it, grow it, get saved by it. Annoying love, obsessive love, exploring love, ignoring love, deploring love,…
Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group, teaches that “the foundation of society for the family is marriage of a man and a woman for life.” “One man, one woman, one life” is deemed to be God’s plan and instruction. This group is largely against homosexual marriage, but it also rails against no-fault divorce, pre-marital and extra-marital sex, group marriage, and other variations of their ideal scheme. They cite decent research showing the benefits of a stable traditional family, and they warn weakening the…
