Topic: Courtship & Dating
Book:
Courtship in Crisis: The Case for Traditional Dating
Based on the viral blog post Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed, Courtship In
Courtship Blog Posts:
Friendzones, Bromances, and Why You Shouldn’t Marry Your Best Friend
The English language has a problem. We only have one word for “love”. You could say “I love my son. I love pizza. I love my Country. I love my wife. I love God. God loves me.” Each of these sentences are grammatically valid uses of the word “love” and yet convey entirely different concepts. This confusion of language can become a confusion of thought for English speakers.
Join the Courtship in Crisis Research Team
I am looking for a few good nerds to help me with the massive research task for Courtship in Crisis.
Kissing, Sex, and Jesus-Flavored Bubblegum
I remember sitting in the back of a basketball gym, listening to the guest preacher rail against the evil and power of sin. He told us that if we lost our purity, we were like tape that had lost its stickiness or gum that had lost its flavor. He didn’t give us a rose to pass from person to person, but he…
I Was Wrong: A Book About Courtship & Traditional Dating (Now on Kickstarter)
It’s hard for me to admit when I’m wrong. But I was wrong about courtship. So now I’m writing a book about it.
Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed Q&A
In the last week, my post Why Courtship Is Fundamentally Flawed received over half a million readers and over 100,000 comments, likes, and shares on Facebook. It has sparked a robust discussion in the comments section with over 1000 lengthy responses.
Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed
I grew up as a member of the homeschool community. When I was a teenager, my friends started reading this new book called I Kissed Dating Goodbye. For months we could talk of little else. After reading it myself, I grew into as big an opponent of dating as you could find. Dating was evil and Courtship, whatever it was, was godly, good and Biblical.
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...
The Thin Line Between Creepy and Charming
Yesterday I tweeted “The only difference between creepy and charming is permission.” Some explanation is in order.
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...
What is Courtship?
So, what is courtship anyway? How is it different from dating?