Tag Archive for ‘marriage’
The Persistence of Gesture
I am teaching a course to theology students on the Sacrament of Marriage. One of my interests is how art reflects and illustrates theology, so I showed my class the mosaic above. According to a scholar called Edwin Hall it is the earliest Christian monument to depict a marriage and is thus “the prototype for […]
Can You Bear It?
It’s so dry in Texas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet-wipes, the Presbyterians are giving out rain-checks, and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water. Now that’s dry! ———————————————— At a wedding, the DJ polled the guests to see who had been […]
The Gospel of Matthew – (Part 3)
Matthew brackets the material in chapters 5-9 with two nearly identical verses. “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people” (4:23). “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming […]
Pornography destroyed my marriage
The hidden perniciousness of pornography in a marriage. (Author’s name withheld.) I was married for a long time to a man addicted to pornography. I am now divorced. I became aware of his addiction early in our marriage. I found the ‘girlie’ magazines hidden under the bed, read, he said, for the articles. I wanted […]
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