I remember sitting in the back of a basketball gym, listening to the guest preacher rail against the evil and power of sin. He told us that if we lost our purity, we were like tape that had lost its stickiness or gum that had lost its flavor. He didn’t give us a rose to pass from person to person, but he…
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.
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.
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.
Yesterday I tweeted “The only difference between creepy and charming is permission.” Some explanation is in order.
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.
Based on the viral blog post Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed; Courtship In Crisis, explains where the courtship crisis came from, and why it failed. More importantly, he lays out an alternative model that works.
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