Synopsis:
An exploration of the meaning of chastity in the 21st century.
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Real Sex is an excellent companion piece to Anna Broadway’s Sexless in the City. Winner offers a larger cultural and historical context for Broadway’s desire to live chastely, and has some ideas about why Broadway expresses some disappointment in the way she has been [...]

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Told their unborn child has birth defects that will likely lead to stillbirth, a couple decide to see the pregnancy through to term.
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I am a sucker for stories like those found in The Shaming of the Strong. When I was pregnant with Superfast Baby I thought a lot about what I would do if [...]

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The misadventures of a hapless twenty-something woman whose greatest fear is that she will die a virgin, and whose second greatest fear is that she’ll have sex before marriage.
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I’ll let you know up front that there’s no way that I can be objective about Sexless in the City, because Anna Broadway met the woman who [...]

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Today is Good Friday. Our church doesn’t own its building, so we won’t be going to a service tonight. Instead, we’ll be watching Acts 3&4 of When the Levees Broke. While watching the first half last night I had to keep my eyes on my knitting to keep from dissolving in tears [...]

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Now married to her beloved Erlend Niklausson, Kristin takes up her new life as the mistress of Husaby, fearful that the child that grows inside her will expose her secret shame and cause her father to reject her.
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I didn’t think it was going to be possible for Undset to outdo her achievement The Wreath, book [...]

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In Newsweek this week, literary critic Harold Bloom offers his list of the five books he’d take to the desert island with him. Touchstone Magazine’s blog has some intriguing commentary, and some fun lists in the comments.
I will not be bringing the 2nd of 3 books I read tonight for work, because it was [...]

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When the Archbishop of Canterbury sends a canon to uncover evidence of sexual misconduct in the home of one of his bishops, a mare’s nest of scandal erupts and the canon must face hard truths about the hypocrisies in his life.
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A Christian how-to book focused on understanding God’s grace & freeing yourself from the tyranny of legalism.
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