Category Archives: Love & Marriage

Endogamy Revisited

Posted on December 3, 2019 by nathanalbright

In a previous essay [1], I explored the phenomenon of pedigree collapse as occurred in one of my family lines.  Having found another spectacular case of this in a different line of my family, where where one Sara Quackenbush had … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lost In Austen

Posted on November 29, 2019 by nathanalbright

Lost In Austen:  Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, by Emma Campbell Webster This book was amusing.  If you are a fan of Jane Austen’s novels, and the author assumes that the reader is going to identify with Elizabeth Bennet … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

The Private Diary Of Mr. Darcy, by Maya Slater This novel falls prey to one of the main failings of novels about the Regency era written by contemporary writers, and that is the tendency to be cynical about the virtue … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Darcy’s Story

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

Darcy’s Story, by Janet Aylmer This book does something worthwhile that is harder to do than it might seem at first, and that is to rearrange and reframe the story of Pride & Prejudice while retaining as much as possible … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man In The World

Posted on November 27, 2019 by nathanalbright

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy:  The Last Man In The World, by Abigail Reynolds This particular book is a Pride & Prejudice Variation, where the author has chosen to change Pride & Prejudice at a point and then explore a changed scenario … Continue reading →

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Turning Aside After Satan: Apostasy In 1 Timothy 5

Posted on November 22, 2019 by nathanalbright

It is striking and more than a little bit unusual that Paul refers to widows turning aside after Satan, and although Paul comments about Satan/the devil often in scripture, as we have repeatedly seen, this context is sufficiently novel and … Continue reading →

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Satan And The Temptation Of Sexual Sin In 1 Corinthians 7

Posted on November 18, 2019 by nathanalbright

We find an unusual reference to Satan, if not so unusual given the concerns against sexual immorality that are so common among contemporary believers, in 1 Corinthians 7:1-9.  While it is not my intent here to discuss the context and … Continue reading →

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The Imaginary Incel

Posted on November 9, 2019 by nathanalbright

One of the more negative terms that has become increasingly common in many of the conversations I read and participate in is the term incel, which is a portmanteau for the longer expression involuntary celibate, and tends to make fun … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Married Roommates

Posted on September 11, 2019 by nathanalbright

Married Roommates:  How To Go From A Relationship That Just Survives To A Marriage That Thrives, by Talia and Allen Wagner [Note:  This book was provided free of charge by Reedsy Discovery.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.] The … Continue reading →

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It’s A Small World After All

Posted on July 28, 2019 by nathanalbright

Recently I was having dinner with some brethren in this congregation and, as is sometimes the case, I received a request to speak about a particular topic that one of the people at dinner was interested in, namely the connections … Continue reading →

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