I believe that only married people should have sex. You probably do, too. Evangelicals breastfeed their young on the notion that exchanging bodily fluids other than saliva (and sometimes that’s off limits) shouldn’t happen outside the bounds of matrimony. Now, tell me where it says that in the...

I just spent a lovely Valentine’s Day with my husband. It was our sixth Valentine’s Day together. We met in January of 2006 and were married that August. (Hey, when you’ve spent your entire adult life unmarried, you don’t waste time dating Mr. Wrong or letting Mr. Right get away.)...

A slight breeze wandered down the narrow streets and caressed the small, arched bridges of the city that I walked. The night was yet another of reasonable weather and fair social happenings in this sprawling urban area.  My walk through the circular streets of the central part of the city had carried...

Ten or fifteen years ago, “courtship” became a buzzword in Evangelical culture. Books like Joshua Harris’ I Kissed Dating Goodbye* and Elisabeth Elliot’s Passion and Purity popularized the notion of replacing dating with antediluvian courtship rituals. It started a lot of conversations and sold...

One of the benefits of working in medicine is knowing a lot of random facts that I can pull out at cocktail parties, wedding receptions, baby showers and other social gatherings when there’s a lull in the conversation. For example, it’s impossible to keep your eyes open when you sneeze. If you wreck...

For my birthday recently a friend from work gave me, as a joke—at least I think it was a joke (I mean, I’m not really that kind of girl), a copy of the National Enquirer. The cover story was “John Edwards caught cheating again!” Also on the cover, in smaller type, was a teaser about a follow-up...

I had a bi-level spinal fusion in April 2009, but my back still hurts. My surgeon keeps moving the goalposts every time I tell him this. “It will take three months for you to notice a difference,” he said at first. Three months later, he tells me six months. At six months he said, “Well, for some...

A few years ago I ran the medical clinic at a camp in the Pocono Mountains.  Local churches donated scholarship money, and the funds were used to bus kids from Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York City to the mountains for a week in the great outdoors. The summer was as much a learning experience for...

“women don’t like it when the friend in your pants is sleepy” “don’t you just want to run away when you can’t satisfy your girl?” There’s a reason spam comes in certain types; these hackers want us to click on something and hand over our personal information, which means each ad has to...

Pastors Aaron and Tim discuss the role and importance of children. PART 3 – Children