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The sad story of the failed engagement between missionary Lottie Moon and academic Crawford Toy is interesting only for what it reveals about the view of marriage and unthinking self-abnegation urged upon believers by fundamentalists. Moon, who ended the engagement … Continue reading →

Just now is the height of the Southern Baptists’ annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, and today is the anniversary of her birth in 1840. A missionary to China, she is routinely described as “the nearest thing Protestants have to a … Continue reading →

… of the problem of Godly marriages. No one denies that conservative Christians have a marriage problem, a dizzying gap between their articulated ideals and their success in achieving them. According to the Pew Forum, evangelicals are more likely to … Continue reading →