Susan Wise Bauer:
"Talking About REAL Marriage: Advice from the Driscolls"
"Real Marriage suggests that spouses talk to each other about their emotions, do nice things for each other, cultivate friendship, plan date nights. It points out that sex within marriage is a good thing. It recommends forgiveness, kindness, patience. It gives pretty decent advice... It is unabashedly conservative and complementarian... Like hundreds of evangelical marriage books, Real Marriage uses the Bible to shore up this complementarian point of view. And like thousands of evangelical self-help authors, the Driscolls toss in some highly questionable exegesis... Real Marriage also features a pronounced inability to separate cultural norms from timeless truths... But a misunderstanding of history, like sloppy exegesis, isn't exactly unusual in evangelical literature. Despite these flaws, and a few too many condescending remarks about emotional and fragile females, Real Marriage contains quite a lot of thoroughly helpful material... It turns out, though, that Chapter 10 isn't all that transgressive... And the recommendations can pretty well be summed up in two phrases: Sure, if you both want to, as long as it doesn't cause a problem... What Real Marriage has going for it, in the end, is the only thing it doesn't share with scores of other marriage books: Mark Driscoll... The hype in the press release isn't, ultimately, about Real Marriage; it's about Mark Driscoll..."
"The Driscolls and Real Marriage"
"Though Real Marriage weighs in at over 200 pages and 11 chapters, there is one chapter that is going to generate the vast majority of the buzz. I plan to write a review of the whole book closer to the release date. For now, though, I want to reflect on that one chapter."
"Can We ____? and the 1 Corinthians 6:12 Grid"
"The reason I am writing these articles is to (hopefully) show that the grid the Driscolls use to evaluate sex acts that are right or wrong is faulty and that introducing that grid to a marriage could be very harmful. In my last article I showed that the grid does not do an adequate job of evaluating heart motives. Today I want to show that the Driscolls seem to have misunderstood the very passage they use to construct their grid."
Boundless:
"How I Met Mark Driscoll"
"These are normal people, a husband and wife saved by God’s grace who have weathered their share of challenges and confessed their share of sin... It was good for me to see this. For all Mark’s popularity –- for all his podcast subscribers, Twitter followers and rock star reputation –- Mark is a guy who knows he’s not in charge; he makes sure everyone remembers that God runs the show. Out of the spotlight he’s a casual, funny, self-effacing guy. He expects criticism from the public and welcomes rebuke from godly mentors. He’s rough around the edges. He’s still learning to love his wife and kids well. He’s serving his church and drawing boundaries on his time where he can."
"Mark and Grace Driscoll's marriage should be a bad statistic, but by the grace of God, it's not. They're still together and doing better than ever as they take life and love one day at a time. They're also not afraid to share their journey in hopes of helping other couples avoid the mistakes they made, and their new book Real Marriagereflects much of their story. We talk about some of it here as Mark and Grace unpack themes like friendship, men in marriage, respect, the effects of abuse and other important lessons. Here's a picture of us during the interview. I'll have more once I bully Dave into downloading them off his camera."
**Tim Challis' review of "The Meaning of Marriage" by the Kellers
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