Defenders of Traditional and Biblical Marriage are not the only ones who have it wrong, there is a lot of misunderstanding about Traditional and Biblical Marriage by Marriage Equality advocates as well. Traditional and Biblical Marriage are not synonymous of one another. Traditional Marriage is something upheld in Western culture and society that stems from the Medieval era, argued during the Protestant Reformation, solidified by the Puritans, celebrated in the Victorian period, and then epitomized by mid-20th century Western culture. Biblical Marriage refers to the examples of marriage that exist...

In the past, Rick Warren has taken issue with the redefinition of marriage. He has said time and time again, “For 5,000 years, marriage has been defined by every single culture and every single religion — this is not a Christian issue. Buddhist, Muslims, Jews — historically, marriage is a man and a woman… I just don’t believe in the redefinition of marriage.” [1] The issue is that our current definition of marriage (that is the Western, Christian notion of the marriage institution in the U.S.) has not existed for 5,000 years, let alone existed across cultural or religious boundaries....

News can go viral instantly in today’s age. With much anticipation, many Twitterers were excited to learn today that the California Supreme Court overturned the marriage ban via other Twitterers, including myself. As soon as I heard the news, I sent word out to my followers and Facebook friends citing that I was happy to see the ban overturned; that there’s been no greater injustice during my lifetime then to deny civil rights to LGBT and I was going to celebrate with a beer. Instantly, my followers began re-tweeting until I looked at the date of the article cited from the Los Angeles...

“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse...

I just got an email from my mother-in-law who yesterday dropped me from Facebook. She made a really good point, “My reason for being on FB is clearly different from yours. I just want to keep connected in a light and airy way with my family and friends.” Her comment got me thinking about how the relationship between Twitter and Facebook creates content awkwardness. Twitter was created to answer the simple question, “What are you doing?” The same reason why statuses were originally created in Facebook. Do you remember the Facebook name followed by the word “is?”...

In a series of post, I’ll be providing a brief history of sex and marriage exploring some of the myths in Christianity. Religion should not detach sexuality and marriage from it’s historical origins and monopolize relationships. Religion, specifically Christianity, has never had the upper hand on marriage or family despite that it would like nothing more than to believe it has. Statements like, “Marriage has always been one way,” “The role of the father is this and the role of the mother is that,” and “God has outlined what marriage is suppose to be”...

Contrary to popular Christian belief, it is not always so easy to determine what is sin, and what is not sin. Those who argue that the Bible is black and white on issues of sin neglect to take Scripture as something that is constantly in tension and not always in complete harmony with itself. This tension, for anyone who studies theology, is quickly realized and the Christian religion becomes a faith that includes a lot more gray. This is not only true today but also in Paul the Apostles time, as he often gave his best answer to many “moral” issues of his time (Corinthians). Paul did...

I was engaging in a conversation with my sister and wife on how my Christian spirituality has “forced” me more into my humanness. The more I have attempted to be like Christ, the more I’ve discovered my humanness – the characteristics of who I am, the sympathies and frailties of my human existence, the inner strengths I would otherwise not know, dreams and passions I never thought would give me life, etc. Human desires I once called “evil” were in actuality just who I was made to be. I’m coming to believe, in part, that this is what Paul the Apostle may...

One of the top complaints, apart from sexual complaints, I hear from my male friends about their marriages is that their wife and family has them CONFINED! That’s right, “Lockdown.” There is no more independence. Shared between the kids and domestic life, the wife wants all of her husbands attention and time. Once cherished male activities have been meshed with the ideology of becoming “one” and self-identity gets lost in marriage translation. I’ve been faulted before for not talking specifically about my marriage. My vagueness has led some to believe that my...

Original posted to my old blog August 2007: Ah, completion. Everyone wants to be completed by someone else. It’s a romantic ideal to believe that out there in the universe is someone who will complete us. We believe that something is missing within us as people that can only be found when we meet the perfect somebody. If the person were engaging doesn’t happen to be someone we find ourselves completed by, we seek someone else who can complete us more fully. We are often on the constant search to find the one person who fulfills us completely. We rarely consider that everyone we meet, everyone...