How ‘Facebook Infidelity’ Can Sabotage Your Marriage
“Mom! Dad! Zack hit me with a soda can!” (for the record, it was an empty aluminum soda can) It was spring break, and toward the end of one of our…
Are Christian Women Taking Dating Too Seriously?
A friend recently shared the article, “Are Christian Guys Not Taking Dating Seriously?” on her Facebook page. She garnered many responses running the gamut of support, qualifications and criticism. The…
How to Know When Your Marriage Needs Some Work
Think of the random conversations you’ve had in the past month of your life. How often have you heard people tell you in passing that they are going to a…
The Summer Luvin’ Guide
he best things about summer are the beautiful nights, a slew of fun movies on the horizon and that you can finally shake off all those emotional shackles of winter…
How Do You Know When You’re Ready to Get Married?
Marriage tends to be a popular topic this time of year—June is the busiest month for tying the knot—but earlier this month marriage made the news among evangelical circles for…
5 Iconic Movie Lines That Don’t Work in Real Relationships
In my life as a pastor, I have had the honor of officiating close to 100 weddings. I will confess that I’m not a big fan of couples “writing their…
Here’s How Healthy Couples Fight
My husband and I came into marriage with diametrically opposed perspectives regarding conflict. He hails from a large Italian-American family where arguments happened on a somewhat regular basis. Family members…
3 Things Every Single Person Needs to Stop Doing
When you’re single, life affords you the ability to do all kinds of things. Really, that’s beauty of this time of life. But, there are certainly some thing that those…
What Does a Happy Marriage Really Look Like?
In 1997, a peculiar business deal went down. To keep the then-fledgling Apple Computers from becoming a figment of Silicon Valley’s past, an unlikely investor breathed new life into Apple’s…
The Lie Too Many People Believe About Purity
We, as Christians, miss the mark a lot of times when it comes to how we view the process of purity. For a whole generation, the idea of purity is…
Your Friends Don’t Need You to Fix Them
My husband and I left an oppressive church environment and were verbally shamed, threatened and shunned in the process. We were heartbroken because we expected unconditional love from a community…
Your Life Isn’t on Hold If You’re Single
In a Christian subculture that tends to talk about marriage as if it’s the pot of gold at the end of the proverbial rainbow, sometimes single Christians can feel like…
The Mistakes All Young Couples Make in Their First Year of Marriage
You’re in your first year of marriage. This is the time you imagined, prepared for and were pressured about through your dating life, and likely long before. You recall watching…
So, Which Is Harder, Marriage or Singleness?
Singleness is often viewed as an undesirable life stage. If you ask anyone in the Church, for the most part, they despair at their single years. Singleness is hard, often…
Does the ‘Billy Graham Rule’ Hurt or Help Women?
It was my first day in my first class at seminary. I’d landed a coveted spot in the hermeneutics course taught by our seminary’s own president. In our eyes, he…