By Trillia Newbell Paula Hendricks has been learning what it means to be needy for God rather than needy for the attention of boys. In this Q&A learn how God helped her fight her boy-craziness and about her new book, Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Girl: On Her Journey from Neediness to Freedom. Why did you...

By Katie Van Dyke (Editor’s Note: Over the next few Thursday’s we will feature articles related to sexual intimacy. Today is the second post of our series. You can read the first one here. Please note that there will be a variety of perspectives shared within this series.) It is no secret that sexual impurity...

By Jennifer Griffin “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together” Colossians 1:17. Someone once told me, “You never forget your first love.” In fact, I’ve heard those words more times than I can count, and for many years told myself, “Well, that’s no problem—I’ll just get it right the first...

In an increasingly post-Christian culture, the Biblical portrait of marriage is becoming more foreign to 21st-century Americans than ever before. Clear and compelling articulations of the biblical portrait of marriage are essential. Tim Keller’s recent work, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God, is one recent example of...

Justin Lee.  Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from Gays-vs.-Christians Debate. New York: Jericho Books, 2012. 259 pp. $21.99. By Samuel Emadi Torn is an autobiographical account of Justin Lee’s journey from being “God boy”—a conservative, Southern Baptist who was convinced the Bible condemned homosexual acts—to now believing that “God would bless gay couples” (206). Lee, the...

  by Katie Van Dyke A couple of weeks ago, JD Gunter wrote an excellent post on the phenomena of “just talking”, a new and confusing category of relationship between a guy and a girl. Last week, he went even deeper and called for greater responsibility in men while pursuing relationships with women. As a...