Sunday, February 12, 2006
For devout couples, love is divine
Tom Heinen reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on a revival of courtship in place of dating for some young couples in what he calls conservative Christian churches.
Heather Pardee and Oriel O'Gorman are the engaged couple featured in the article.
Sounds like something that might be subject to empirical verification. ¶ 2/12/2006 02:15:00 PM
Evoking images of bygone eras, the time that O'Gorman and Pardee spend together is in public, within view of family members or within earshot through an open door. Their parents did not arrange their pairing, but neither young person would have gone ahead without consultation and approval from their parents.
Heather Pardee and Oriel O'Gorman are the engaged couple featured in the article.
She and O'Gorman hold a belief taught at Falls Baptist Church and common among Christian courtship advocates: that dating, with its breakups and emotional scars, is a better preparation for guardedness and divorce than for marriage.
Sounds like something that might be subject to empirical verification. ¶ 2/12/2006 02:15:00 PM
