Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. and the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.

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Prior to starting Practicing the Way, he spent almost twenty years pastoring Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, and working out apprenticeship to Jesus in the post-Christian West. And I want to add, my dissatisfactions with the book hardly boil down to thinking Comer is too "conservative.

That said, there were several good points that were made that did not rely on or connote gender roles or sexual orientations. Dod is when you see a woman and you instantly want to make babies with her, when you see a guy and all you can think about is what his skin would feel like up against yours.This books speaks honestly and truthfully about relationships and navigating the subject of relationships in today’s society. It's a moving experience to imagine Jesus— the creator of everything—covered in blood and open wounds, tripping his way up the hill to Golgotha.

His passion is the intersection of spiritual formation and post-Christian culture, and to that end, he is regularly found reading the desert fathers and mothers, ancient saints and obscure contemplatives, modern psychologists and social scientists, and op-eds from the New York Times. The first song (Adam's poem in Genesis 2), and the longestsong ( Song of Songs ) are both celebrations of romantic love. She was a vision of long, curly black hair and deep, almond-shapedeyes, and she was walking toward me . His writing becomes much less tactful towards the end and there’s some stuff regarding women and women’s role in relationships that he states as “just the way things are supposed to be” that I just straight up don’t agree with. There is clarity between the laying down of Biblical principles, and times when the author shares his own experiences and reasoned perspective.He goes into the history of some of our customs showing how practices like dating and choosing one’s own marriage partner are recent with a dubious track record for creating long-lasting marriages (though he doesn't advocate arranged marriages). Now, that's not all bad, but you don't have to be a psychologist to figure out where that road leads. During an analogy in which comer is explaining how you should not let yourself be put in situations where you might be tempted to sin, he says you should not be with someone your dating on the same couch, with the candles lit, and Bon Iver playing.