{"id":366,"date":"2011-02-14T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/happy-valentines-day-faith-news-roundup.html"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:06:00","slug":"happy-valentines-day-faith-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/happy-valentines-day-faith-news-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day: Faith News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day: a Christian feast for some, a (happy or dreaded) Hallmark holiday for others.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnsblog\/mondays_religion_news_roundup14\/#When:15:19:00Z\">the story&nbsp;links provided by today&#8217;s Religion News Service daily roundup<\/a>&nbsp;and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/\">range of lovely links on Beliefnet&#8217;s main page<\/a>, here are five interesting faith-related blog posts for the occasion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.orlandosentinel.com\/features-the-religion-world\/2011\/02\/14\/valentines-day-time-for-a-couples-checkup\/\">Valentine&#8217;s Day: Time for a couples checkup <\/a>(Orlando Sentinel&#8217;s The Religion World)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2011\/02\/13\/sex-and-the-single-pastor-dating-can-be-hell-for-unmarried-cler\/\">Sex and the single pastor: Dating can be hell for unmarried clergy <\/a>(Politics Daily)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/valentines-day-stirs-religious.html\">Valentine&#8217;s Day stirs objections in parts of the world <\/a>(Religion Clause)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/14\/my-take-married-divorced-married-again-divorced%E2%80%94sound-familiar\/\">My Take: Forget falling in love. Try arranged marriage <\/a>(CNN Belief Blog)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2011\/02\/14\/2742741\/dont-dismiss-the-jewish-character-of-cupid#When:14:00:00Z\">Don&#8217;t dismiss the Jewish character of Cupid <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a Greek, I&#8217;m confused by that last story; <em>no <\/em>mention of Eros and Aphrodite\/Venus? <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthistory.about.com\/od\/cupidandpsyche\/a\/CupidandPsyche.htm\">Cupid and Psyche <\/a>is one of my favorite ancient Greek myths. Also, as an honorary Indian, I find the CNN &#8220;My Take&#8221; overly simplistic. There&#8217;s a huge difference between the kind of arranged marriage where two mature, consenting adults are introduced by a mediator but get to know each other before agreeing to marry &#8212; that&#8217;s more or less what eHarmony and other online dating services do these days &#8212;&nbsp;versus other forms of it.<\/p>\n<p>But, maybe I&#8217;m just in a bad mood because my big&nbsp;Valentine is off on a business trip and my little Valentine just drew on the couch &#8212; maybe he was trying for a heart? &#8212;&nbsp;while I was putting up these links. Sigh! <em>(Edited to add<\/em>: Rubbing alcohol gets pen stains off microfiber. Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day: a Christian feast for some, a (happy or dreaded) Hallmark holiday for others. In addition to the story&nbsp;links provided by today&#8217;s Religion News Service daily roundup&nbsp;and a range of lovely links on Beliefnet&#8217;s main page, here are five interesting faith-related blog posts for the occasion: Valentine&#8217;s Day: Time for a couples checkup&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Valentine&#039;s Day: Faith News Roundup - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/02\/happy-valentines-day-faith-news-roundup.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Valentine&#039;s Day: Faith News Roundup - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day: a Christian feast for some, a (happy or dreaded) Hallmark holiday for others. 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