I wanted to be a hero in these troublesome times. Now I’m just another bride throwing a tantrum over the right nuance of the wedding decorations. June 1st should have been my wedding day. My...
Imagine you’re in a restaurant and a hush descends across all the guests. You look around and see, in the far corner, a man who has gone down on one knee, open ring box in hand, proposing to the...
This week, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that opposite-sex couples should have the right to have a civil partnership as well as marriage. This has been a controversial ruling that has been resisted...
Happy Monday, gentle readers! We hope you had a great weekend...and that you're looking for some reading recommendations to sneak in between sifting through your inbox this morning. This week,...
Pope Francis has just issued a new synod, Amoris Laetitia — “The Joy of Love.” Francis had been expected to make a proclamation on the status of marriage and relationships in the church, with...
All those hyphens! You can actually feel the jumps and the starts, no smooth flow here... and I don’t just mean the heading at the top of the page. I’m actually referring to you and me and every...
Mitt Romney's statement at the October 16th Presidential debate, in which he said that he would decrease gun violence in America by telling more people to get married before they have babies, have...
In recent years there has been growing awareness of the ways in which early marriage can be detrimental to the lives of women. Feminists are continually derided for describing patriarchy as a system...
On May 26, the California Supreme Court affirmed Proposition 8 by a six to one majority. The eighteen thousand that got married while same gender marriages were legal were issued a reprieve when the...
When I heard about the raid on a fundamentalist Texas compound called Yearning for Zion, I got to thinking about polygamy (well, my initial thought was more along the lines of "wow, I really want to...