TV Show 'Chopped' Features Weekly 'Mystery Basket'

Every episode the Food Network TV show Chopped features a competition between very experienced chefs. They're each given a "mystery basket" containing ...

Cohabitation Is not Like a Test Drive

The Census reports a 72 percent increase in the number of cohabiting couples since 1990. For many people in our culture, living together before marriage ...

Soul Mate in a Box Relationship Trend

Daniel Jones, the editor for The New York Time's "Modern Love" column, has had access to the love lives of tens of thousands of strangers. From this perspective, ...

Tim Keller: The Unpredictable Journey of Marriage

Over the years you will go through seasons in which you have to learn to love a person who you didn't marry, who is something of a stranger. You will ...

Jim and Pam from The Office Recall Marital Vows

In the final season of The Office, Pam and Jim Halpert's marriage has been on the rocks. Jim, without Pam's knowledge or consent, started a ...

The Song of Songs Will Reach the Unchurched

Isn't the Bible amazing? It has a whole book—the Song of Songs—that is primarily an unabashed celebration of the pleasure of physical intimacy ...

The Pain of Marital (and Spiritual) Infidelity

Elizabeth Edwards, the former wife of vice presidential candidate Senator John Edwards, described the agony she experienced when she learned of her husband's ...

Scaling Mount Everest (Like Marriage or Advent) Requires Preparation

Nobody who wants to keep on living wakes up one morning and suddenly decides, "I think I'll climb Mount Everest today." Such a monumental assault requires ...

Couple Married 72 Years Die Holding Hands

In October 2011, Gordon Yeager, 94, and his wife Norma, 90, died exactly one hour apart after 72 years of marriage. They were holding hands when they ...

Marriage Protects Love; Love Does Not Protect Marriage

An older married couple offered these words of advice to a young couple during their wedding ceremony:

Your love is priceless and needs to be guarded. ...