Category Archives: Marriage & Family

Same-Sex Marriage Redux (1)

Posted on May 2, 2013 by John Armstrong

Gay marriage is clearly “the great debate” of the hour. People on both sides, and all sides in between, debate the meaning of Scripture’s witness to the covenant of marriage and the role of the state in making civil law. … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (6) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 13, 2013 by John Armstrong

Colleen Carroll Campbell’s journey to femininity did not lead her to embrace a kind of Catholic “fundamentalism” with regard to the social, professional and economic gains that she had previously experienced because of feminism. John and Carroll Campbell clearly share … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (5) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 12, 2013 by John Armstrong

As Colleen Carroll Campbell tried to settle into her new work at the White House she found that she had never been so profoundly challenged in her work but so deeply dissatisfied with her life in general. She writes: I … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (4) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 11, 2013 by John Armstrong

In the spring of 2001, five years after Colleen Carroll Campbell had moved from Memphis to St. Louis to write for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, she fell in love with John Campbell, a young physician in training who would … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (3) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 10, 2013 by John Armstrong

As Colleen Carroll Campbell’s spiritual memoir, My Sisters the Saints, evolves we begin to understand how her relationship with men was being changed profoundly. These changes clearly grew out of the spiritual formation that was now powerfully shaping her life … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (2) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 9, 2013 by John Armstrong

Colleen Carroll Campbell’s new spiritual memoir informs the reader, very early in the book, of how her reading St. Teresa’s biography brought deep change. She understood anew why her parents read the lives of the saints as she found in … Continue reading →

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My Sisters the Saints (1) – An Inspiring Journey in Faith

Posted on April 8, 2013 by John Armstrong

Collen Carroll Campbell is an accomplished, award-winning author, as well as a print and broadcast journalist. I have followed her writing and professional career, at least from a  distance, since I read her first book, The New Faithful: Why Young … Continue reading →

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Voluntarist Protestantism and the Dangers of Secular Modernity

Posted on March 7, 2013 by John Armstrong

Voluntarist/Biblicist Churches During the same period that I referred to yesterday, and especially since the decade of 1960s, churches deeply centered in teaching the Bible have grown numerically. Only recently has this growth begun to significantly slow down, a fact … Continue reading →

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The Real Threat to Personal Faith Commitment to Christ

Posted on March 5, 2013 by John Armstrong

I would argue that in America the impact of personal and social secularization is different than in virtually all other Western nations. The reason for this is because religion was never formally established in America as a function in which … Continue reading →

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Common Ground: God’s Gift of a Restored Marriage

Posted on November 28, 2012 by John Armstrong

Common Ground: God’s Gift of a Restored Marriage, by Gordon Bals, is a book “God can use” according to best-selling author Larry Crabb. I agree and this is why I endorsed the book by writing: Books on marriage are very … Continue reading →

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