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New Site: PracticalCourtship.com

I have started a new website Practical Courtship! The goal of the website is to help make courtship work. So in a way it is a critique of courtship but it is also a guide. So far, it has received a fair bit of traffic and a ton of great comments. I encourage you to [...]

September 22nd, 2009 by Thomas

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The Thin Line Between Creepy and Charming

Yesterday I tweeted “The only difference between creepy and charming is permission.” Some explanation is in order.

July 11th, 2009 by Thomas

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7 Challenges to Middle Distance Relationships

Grace and I live about an hour away from each other. Grace works in Austin an hour from her home and mine forming a giant one hour triangle of doom. I call this triangle of driving "a middle distance relationship." We are to far to see each other daily and to close for week long [...]

June 3rd, 2008 by Thomas

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What is Courtship?

So, what is courtship anyway? How is it different from dating?

April 25th, 2008 by Thomas

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Christian Courtship – The Need for Lower Standards

I am unaware of any generation at any time in the last 6000 years that has done as poor a job at marriage as the baby boomer generation. So why do we listen to their advice when it comes to our relationships?

April 1st, 2008 by Thomas

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A New Adventure

I am setting of on one of the biggest, most exiting and dangerous adventures of my life. And I am not talking about my trip to Ecuador. Grace Chambers and I are now officially courting. And by official I mean Facebook official. After several meetings with her dad he asked her if she was interested [...]

March 15th, 2008 by Thomas

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