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Delight in the Good

Karen Swallow Prior

I’m tempted to concur with the diagnosis of our current malaise offered by Carl Trueman: “[E]ntertainment is not simply a part of our world. It is arguably the dominant...

Marriage and Mating Rites

Karen Swallow Prior

If marriage is a sacrament, then the way in which practices that lead to marriage function as liturgies deserves attention. “Before ‘I Do’,” a new study published by the...