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Summer 2025

Volume 31, Number 3 · Three articles

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  1. A Devotional Reflection on George Herbert’s Poem, Love III Suzanne McDonald
  2. The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived Sue Cyre
  3. Where Has All the Romance Gone? And Where It Can Still Be Found Amy Kosari

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In this issue

  1. Discipleship

    A Devotional Reflection on George Herbert’s Poem, Love III

    Herbert's most famous poem stages a soul drawing back from divine love and the patient persistence with which Love draws it forward anyway. McDonald reads the poem alongside Herbert's pastoral writings, finding the same Reformed conviction running through both: only refusal can shut us out.

    Suzanne McDonald8 min read

  2. Theology

    The Greatest Love Story Ever Lived

    Cyre traces the wedding scene that runs from Eden through the prophets to Revelation: the Father giving his Bride to the Son, Christ vowing eternal faithfulness to his Church. Every human marriage is an echo of that union, and our identity flows from being part of it.

    Sue Cyre23 min read

  3. Church and Culture

    Where Has All the Romance Gone? And Where It Can Still Be Found

    Gen Z talks about romance as an unbearable rulebook crushing them. Kosari hears the same paralysis in our churches, where marriage has become an idol no one can quite picture. She turns to Isaiah 52, where the Lord woos his Jerusalem out of captivity, for a different vision.

    Amy Kosari23 min read
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