Healing our wounded hearts is a lot of fun, isn’t it? What’s often the most difficult at first is trying to find a way of seeing hope. Because when we’re broken, we’re broken. It kind of depends on how our hearts have been wounded. The specific kinds of trauma we endure. Because those traumas, those […]
Read More Healing our heartsI’ve been reminded of what it’s like to fall in love, which is weird since I was a hopeless wannabe romantic for much of my early adulthood. It’s funny how you can forget for a variety of reasons without even realizing it, whether you’re married or single. The delight of flirtation given and returned; the […]
Read More The ecstasy of falling in loveThere’s a huge problem with the Bible. The problem involves the way most Christians (Protestants in particular) approach it. We like to pretend that the scriptures are our primary source of authority for understanding God. In actuality, though, this is very seldom practiced. The Bible doesn’t come to any of us as a straight and […]
Read More The disconnect with Christians on sexuality, Part IIIOne has to know the Christian paradigms of human identity and love in order to understand the Christian view of sexuality. If you admit ignorance or uncertainty on either of those issues you’re actually in better shape than most Christians, who don’t realize they’re woefully uninformed about their own system of belief. There is no […]
Read More The disconnect with Christians on sexuality, Part IIWe tend to get bent out of shape and let our emotions and biases throw off how we view all sorts of things in life. Perhaps more than with any other issue, this is especially true when it comes to love. Misunderstandings over love are more central to bad communication, bad philosophies, and bad policies […]
Read More What is love? (baby, it can hurt me)
David S. Wisener 