Come to the Feast

When I was younger, I thought that Jane Austen’s stories were little more than soap operas- Hallmark-style cotton candy drama. This may in part be due to the fact that my primary exposure was through the Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice, which- well, which was pretty much exactly that. But, after marriage, my wife introduced me to some of the more faithful adaptations of Austen’s works, and I have had the sense and sensibility to be persuaded not to judge her wo

Because we have forsaken the Word of God in our land, American culture has tried in vain to find a good standard for what constitutes morality when it comes to sex. One of the most popular suggestions is that the answer is simply a morality based on consent. One of the poisonous fruits that this has borne is a hyper-focus on and over-analysis of what constitutes “consent.” From a Biblical perspective, God’s design for sex is pretty simple. No sex until marriage, and then at m