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'Midwinter Break' offers a rare grown-up love story
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (60+ words) Faith-based films have come a long way, baby.Remember the hardscrabble tales told by the Kendrick Brothers (Fireproof," Facing the Giants") on shoestring budgets? Think Kirk Cameron and a sea of unfamiliar faces.'The way that faith shows up in…...
A one-way national divorce: Anarchy for them, coercion for us
2+ week, 1+ day ago (57+ words) Imagine the Confederates attacking Fort Sumter in April 1861 and Abraham Lincoln negotiating terms of separation instead of mustering troops. We would be two separate countries. In a limited but real sense, we now live in two countries anyway " because Donald…...
America’s old cultic trick: Sex, salvation, and the return of polygamy
2+ week, 6+ day ago (48+ words) American religious history is littered with cult leaders who promised a blessed life through deviant sexuality. From the earliest frontier movements to the modern era, the pattern is remarkably consistent: a charismatic figure announces that traditional Christian morality is oppressive,…...
America now looks like a marriage headed for divorce — with no exit
4+ week, 2+ day ago (55+ words) Marriages rarely end over one argument. They fall apart through a long breakdown in communication, a growing inability to resolve disagreements, and the slow realization that two people no longer walk toward the same future.Healthy marriages don't require full…...
#USTOO: Men are fed up with female insanity. Here's what they tell me.
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (61+ words) Men have a big problem these days: the women in their lives.Simply put, their wives, mothers, sisters, co-workers, and other female friends have become unbearable.I know of two licensed mental health counselors, both gay men, who will no…...
Christian nationalists argue ‘less than ideal’ interracial relationships are wrong
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (51+ words) When interracial marriage became a hot topic on the tip of Christian nationalists' tongues this week, the controversial pastor Joel Webbon chimed in " sparking even more debate.Interracial marriage, while biblically permissible, generally/ordinarily goes against God's normative design for…...
Good Men Are Hard To Find, So Why Are So Many Women Divorcing Them?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (23+ words) Divorcing a good man is not an act of bravery but an act of self-destruction that harms many others in the process....
What’s Driving The U.S. Marriage Annulment Crisis In The Catholic Church
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (24+ words) Catholic spouses striving to honor their vows find little support from a church that seems to have adopted a U.S. divorce culture mentality....
Yes, Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (113+ words) President Donald Trump is an occasional practitioner of an unsparing form of political logic. Having taken an interest in the massive public-programs fraud committed by an almost exclusively Somali cast of perpetrators in Minnesota, he has followed up with unfriendly…...