Let me begin this article with a confession: I’m deeply uncomfortable with failure. I don’t like it when I mess up, whether on purpose or by accident, and I hate to see other people mess up too. And that’s a problem if I want to see growth in myself and growth in my marriage. It turns out that the process …
Hospitality and Abraham
I think it’s fair to say that our cultural understanding of hospitality has waned over the past few generations. My mother tells me that in the days of her mother, people would commonly reserve pastries or cake in case of visitors for tea. Bilbo Baggins (admittedly, this would have been back in the Third Age) was able to host a …
‘I-Thou’ and ‘We’ Communions in Marriage
There are two basic ways to be joined in friendship with someone else. I can be attracted to the goodness and beauty of the person, or the both of us can be mutually attracted to the goodness and beauty out there in the world. When I am focused on the other person, and they are focused on me, we call …

