Would You Want Someone Sleeping with Your Wife?
I could have entitled this with "husband" rather than "wife". I wrote the title as I did though because I can relate to it more directly. Though I've never been crushed by the pain of infidelity, I do adore my wife and imagining how a betrayal on her part could hurt sharpens the point of this post for me. My reflections on infidelity began after I read a piece in USA Today. Columnist Tom Krattenmaker wrote about the impulse among college students for a deep engagement with religion. He writes: Students open to a conversation about Christianity, even on a campus with an ultrasecular reputation? Such is the state of affairs at the nation's colleges and universities, where religion is experiencing something of a renaissance, although not necessarily in the shapes and forms older generations are used to seeing. I believe him, in part because I've spent some time recently with college students, and they all exhibit what Tom observes: a keen interes...