gracEmails on divorce and remarriage

soul-mates

A gracEmail reader and her husband are divorcing because they think they have nothing in common anymore. Meanwhile, she has found a male friend who so resonates with her that she wonders if they might be "soul-mates" -- two souls created to find each other and to be together.

beyond anger, pain and guilt

A gracEmail subscriber writes: "I'm approaching the first anniversary of my divorce and I'm still struggling with so much anger, pain and even guilt.... I don't know how to move beyond all this."

divorce -- ideals & forgiveness

A reader from Washington asks: "What can you say about New Testament teaching concerning divorce and remarriage?"

for marriage -- against divorce

A subscriber writes concerning two ... Christians, both previously married and divorced.... The woman's first husband had numerous affairs.... The man's first wife withheld conjugal rights.... "Is there a scriptural reason," the inquirer asks, "against this couple marrying?"

married fidelity is not adultery

"I have heard it said," writes a gracEmail subscriber ... "that anyone who divorces a spouse for an 'unscriptural' reason and marries someone else must leave their present mate and remarry the original spouse, or else remain unmarried.... What are your thoughts?"

Old Testament divorce

A preacher asks concerning Deuteronomy 24:1, the text to which Jesus refers in his own teaching about divorce, "Does 'uncleanness' in this passage mean that the woman has been immoral?"