Loveology: God. Love. Marriage. Sex. and the Never-Ending Story of Male and Female.

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Spektor fled the city during the pandemic and recorded Home, before and after, her eighth studio album and her first since 2016, in a converted church upstate. It’s possibly her best album and certainly her biggest, with a glorious orchestral sound that’s commensurate with her themes. There’s even a tap-dancer on the nine-minute cosmic extravaganza Spacetime Fairytale. So it’s surprising to learn that she recorded it on her own but for producer John Congleton and engineer Ariel Shafir; the orchestra was actually in Macedonia. “This was the most alone recording I’ve ever done,” she says. “I was one of the Covid-safest people that anyone ever met, so I never even set foot in the control room. If the piano tuner came in, I would leave for three hours.” She sighs. “It was a whole thing.” I’m grateful for art but I will always end up choosing cuddling with my kids instead of running away to make art As one who takes egalitarian positions and gender questions and as one who takes a far more progressive hermeneutic, I find it difficult to assign this book a rating. If I take the position of his intended audience - moderately conservative evangelicals - I'd rate this in the four to five (out of five) range. Rating it from my personal perspective and usefulness to me, it would fall to around three because I did not think he engaged opposing viewpoints sufficiently. Mr. Comer provides endnotes, and I wished he would have provided more counterpoints and arguments there, if not in the main body of the text.

Before you watch the video, take time to dig into the following question. Think about how it relates to you as an individual. Contrary to what you might think, divorce was at pandemic levels in first-century Jewish culture. And sadly, more than 2,000 years later, here we are struggling with the same dysfunction and brokenness.Some of the ways he described or referred to girls/women/his wife felt off-putting and disrespectful. I don’t agree with much of the interpretations of the Genesis account nor Ephesians 5 presented in this book. At one point he pulls from the old “chewed up gum” trope from purity culture about people giving pieces of themselves away until they are “hollowed out” shells with nothing left for their spouse. He also references the extra-biblical concept of “soul ties.”

Secondly, the book discusses homosexuality and specifically equates the concept of acting on those “temptations” the same as if he, the author, cheated on his wife with another woman. This is a disturbing comparison that a man betraying and shattering his wife’s trust and marital covenant could be equivalent to a gay relationship that could be a committed, loving, beneficial relationship. These are not the same - you betraying your partner is not the same as same-sex individuals agreeing to be in a potentially healthy, trusting relationship. I used to feel a little bit sad when I realised that in our culture there was a big divide between fiction writers and truth writers,” she says. “To me, fiction is a true vehicle for feelings and realisations about life. Because this place is very weird and mysterious and most of the time we have no idea what’s going on. Every once in a while we get a glimpse and then we realise, oh, actually that was the reverse image of a shrapnel of a tiny mirror that’s a million miles away. It’s very hard to be here, because you’re watching cruelty; you’re watching the next 100 years of war being born. If you wanted, your whole life could be a slow-motion horror. But at the same time it’s just so good here. There are so many wonderful things here and you can fill your days with them.” She takes a giant breath, like she’s just climbed a hill and she’s taking in the view. “I guess all of that ends up being in the music.”Loveology University® provides online training to certify Love Coaches, Relationship Coaches and Master Sexperts through a multimedia platform, with emphasis on loving yourself, physically and emotionally, while accepting others’ sexual practices without moral judgement, through comprehensive distance learning.

Our programs are self-paced which means you can take as little or long as you need to complete the program. Take the curriculum during lunch breaks, after work, evenings, weekends, even while you are still employed full-time at another job.Where does Jesus say marriage began? Why is this significant? Why does it matter? Junk Drawer Theology A note on the chapter on homosexuality: Read this chapter with a grain of salt. Yes, he says some very helpful and crucial things regarding homosexuality. I applaud him for being so bold to do so. However, he said some things that simply made me cringe (which tie to what I mention above); none more fatal than inputting the speculation that Jesus may have “lusted” after another man. Don’t let this keep you from reading the book though, this is only one chapter and there are a lot of good things said in it, but read. The intended audience, as I noted earlier, seems to be moderately conservative evangelicals who hold to a more nuanced interpretation of scripture than a strict literalist reading. Those who hold to a very literal reading, and fundamentalists, will have some points of large disagreements. And likewise, as I have described, progressive and liberal Christians will have points of agreement but will likely be turned off by the gender and sexual orientation discussions. good book about how relationships/marriage/ romance alllll the things were originally created by God. If u haven’t read John mark comer, he’s a great teacher & author — he’s super wise but teaches in a non condescending and straightforward way. It is easy to thrive as a Love Coach, Relationship Expert or Master Sexpert because everyone wants to have a great relationship and love life. Singles want to find their soul mate and couples want to live happily ever after.

If you know anything about the Gospels, you know people are always coming to Jesus with questions about anything and everything. They ask questions about life, God, theology, and law. You name it, they ask it.Outside of that, the content of this book was excellent. He is firm about scripture, yet affirms and appeals to the pain and longing of so many. I will do my best to leave actual religious preferences and beliefs out of this, because my concerns for this book come from a different place. Watch the Session 1 video. Take notes as you watch. What resonates with you? What concepts or thoughts are new to you? What do you disagree with? All of that said, while somewhat disappointing, Loveology is much more balanced and nuanced than most other marriage books of this era, and definitely kinder to women and wives in general. Mr. Comers offers four reasons for marriage as it was originally intended by God: Friendship, Gardening (vocational partnership in the journey of life), Sex, and Family. There may be quibbles about some of the details that are found in the book, but overall these make good sense.