By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine, Jan. 3, 2024
Dr. Anthony Esolen is the author of 28 books on literature, culture, and the Christian life, whose most recent work is In the Beginning Was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John. ….
The upshot is that two boys or two girls should not be a couple at all because that exclusivity is not what friendship is for; it is, in fact, an obstacle to the full flourishing of friendship.
Two people, presenting themselves as a couple, approach a priest and ask for a blessing before the congregation in church.
Let us think this matter through.
Back in 1989, when I was a young professor at what was then still a Baptist school, one of my students asked me to write him a recommendation. ….