FATHER AND I—Kazuo Koizumi— Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). One of the most interesting of minor U. S. writers, Lafcadio Hearn has never been widely read, nor has his strange career been fully and deeply ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Take a walk in someone else's shoes with these marriage-gone-sour recommendations from 'Consider Yourself Kissed' author Jessica Stanley ...

“On our first date we said, ‘on the count of three, say how many kids you want,’ and we both said seven!” shares Katie Walters, reflecting upon her relationship with her husband, Josh, a pastor at ...

With the release of Fiducia Supplicans in December 2023, the Vatican permitted Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples. The announcement scandalized many traditionalists, but it came with an ...

First, the book. It is unabashedly conservative and complementarian. Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll, founder of Mars Hill Church, falls into the “soft patriarchy” camp, a phrase that he himself uses.

Time was when some of the gamiest reading this side of Paris was to be found in the instructive pages of the marriage manuals. “In this little book,” says the preface to the 1939 edition of Married ...

Two new books — one for discerning the right spouse, another for deepening your marital vows — offer Catholics practical wisdom and spiritual support on the path to lifelong love. Book covers of ‘A ...

Many of our best-loved books focus on the first flush of love - think everything from Gone With The Wind to The Notebook. And of course, these romantic books are exciting, poignant, moving but there's ...

“A marriage is so hideously private,” the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch wrote in 1978. “Whoever illicitly draws back that curtain may well be stricken, and in some way that he can least ...

“I’m Dawn,” she said when I sat down with some friends in the college cafeteria. Then she added, “It’s a very sexy name.” If she’d been serious, I probably would have felt too intimidated to see her ...