I think many people do not know how to love. They know the noun beautifully. Our songs and our stories describe the word “love” with lightness and joy. Love is a many-splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love, blah blah blah. I do not think these pieces of culture lie about love, but I think they do a disservice to it by missing crucial aspects of love.
Read MoreMy heart is aching tonight. I have experienced the hardest and most devastating end to a relationship in my life. In my grief, I have been privileged to talk to so many women who date men. What we have all shared, anecdotally at least, is the knowledge that dating is incredibly challenging right now.
Men are not doing well.
Read MoreI grew up in a Missouri Synod Lutheran congregation, surrounded by a family that was heavily tied to the church. My grandfather was a teacher, principal, and bus driver for a small Lutheran school. He and my grandmother built a small cottage on a private Lutheran lake and then after their retirements, moved there permanently. My father was deeply attached to the church. It was the only place I saw him be moved to tears. I knew something special existed there.
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