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.
An End of an Adventure
Grace and I both felt our courtship was distracting us from our most important relationship, our relationship with the Lord. We have decided to call our courtship off and refocus on what God has for us as individuals. We are still friends. The main purpose of...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?
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?
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...Thomas Umstattd Jr.
I'm a Christ Follower, in love with Margaret Umstattd, Father of four children, CEO of Author Media, Podcaster, Marketer, Homeschool Graduate, and Political Trouble Maker.