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Hooking Up Culture
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Scot McKnight
There are four major reasons given to teenagers at the time of their sexual awakening, for not engaging in sex. 1. It’s wrong — and some just say “Because it’s wrong!” while others reach into their sacred texts, like the Bible, or find some moral arguments against sex before marriage.2. You can get pregnant or…
Romance and Marriage Vows
By
Scot McKnight
David Blankenhorn, in a column in 1997 (and anthologized in a book my class is reading — Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (The Ethics of Everyday Life) ), discusses the potential symbolic value of marriage vows. He speaks of two changes in marriage vows today: 1. Modern vows routinely omit…
Valentine’s Day and the Song of Songs
By
Scot McKnight
The Song of Solomon is a love song between lovers and for lovers. Perhaps it was a play or designed to be dramatically played before others. Perhaps it was designed for the king’s courtiers as entertainment. Perhaps it is a record of poems between two lovers. However we explain its original context, its rhetoric and…
A Personal Story
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xscot mcknight
Here is a letter sent to us. Any comment of mine is worthless.
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