I'm back home and making up my traditional end-of-semester sleep deficit. I'll have a few substantive philosophical posts this week (I'm finishing the Eight Questions series before Christmas), but I will be supplementing with lighter fare for the holidays: unusual Christmas practices. My boyfriend's mother was surprised to hear I had any family obligations for Christmas, given that my entire immediate family are atheists. We do have some holiday traditions, however. There's the … [Read more...]
Covenant Marriage: What about Women?
December 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
This post is part of a series on covenant marriage. Mason was troubled by my last post on marriage and raised some objections that are definitely worth addressing. Mason wrote: So my problem with covenant marriage has always been that I don't see how it gets around exactly the gender-power-dynamic problems that we see in not allowing divorce in the first place. If covenant marriage becomes popular in Christian communities, what I see happening relatively quickly is the emergence of two … [Read more...]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Marriage
December 4, 2010 By 6 Comments
My support for covenant marriage led me to mix it up recently on facebook with several friends, including Stephen of The Last Delta-T. He's written a post laying out his opposition to covenant marriage and atheist or feminist-unfriendly aspects of marriage generally. Stephen and I both want to redefine modern marriages, but we want to do it in very different directions, so I'm going to start by laying out some of our basic points of disagreement, and then I'll explain the reasoning … [Read more...]
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