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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.” So says Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” a novel that explores the many ...

In a society where the harmonious dance of love and partnership is often challenged, Bonika Wilson emerges as a beacon of wisdom and resilience. As the author of the bestselling book "Marriage ...

It’s not just couple-centered. The Hard Questions—ranging from “Who prepares the meals?” to “What if one of us is attracted to someone else? Superficially? Deeply?”—is just one of a truckload of books ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...