vol. 9, num. 8 :: 2010.04.16 — 2010.04.29
The earth is waking up, the birds are singing, people are falling in love and wedding plans are materializing. Throughout every human culture, wedding rituals have evolved, taken hold and then changed again. How can these ceremonies reflect our deepest values? Where are the key points of friction, change and creativity today?
Thoughts on the question of (not) registering for gifts.
On doing things differently, without failing to speak the language of tradition.
How mundane details met audacious hope, in the round, on December 31, 2000.
A cautionary tale from a renegade registering spree.
On planning the ceremony after 50, with kids, in the midst of the stuff of life.
An interview with Joy'l Ver Heul, organizer of a locally grown wedding show.
Sorting out the essentials and non-essentials of the ceremony.
Some cautions toward focusing on what it's really all about.
Pondering gift registry in the final stages of planning a wedding.
We asked several people to give us their thoughts on being married or single as they are shaped by the media and their own experiences—this is what they said.
Is the starry-eyed optimism of the engaged a mere illusion?
On the pressures of orchestrating "the most important day of your life."
Sarah Keller writes about the transcendence of her first date.
A retired pastor reflects on a lifetime of listening to scripture and to the gay Christians who have sought his counsel.
Gabe Knipp on waking up to exercise with the one he loves.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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