Tag: Marriage
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What should married people know about the experience of singleness?
If you have an answer to this question please leave it on the blog. I’m away from social media during Lent so any comments left there will be sadly unread. Thanks! During Lent we are preaching through a series called Undivided in which we’re looking at some of the things that separate Christians. As an…
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Marriage Limits Us
Maggie and I were married fifteen years ago today. After the ceremony in the beautiful stone chapel on our college campus, we receded down the aisle and into the muggy night air. The Blue Ridge Mountains – so beautiful in that western corner of North Carolina – guided our pick up truck and twenty-one year…
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“…we revered heterosexual nuclear families…”
The casualties of this lack of imagination have been those people who don’t fit well into a network comprised of heterosexual nuclear families. This includes those sexual minorities who choose not to commit to mixed-orientation marriages, but it also includes people who don’t marry or can’t marry, people who don’t have children or can’t have…
David W. Swanson 