Valentines Day. The day for the loved-up and the loving. The day when hope and longing coalesce in an inescapable, incandescent burst of desire. The loveliest, sappiest, soppiest, most intolerable day of the year. On Valentine’s Day we talk about true love but half the time we don’t know whether it’s true or not - …
Love is hard to pin down. A recent study of married couples tied loving and being loved in to ideas of happiness, contentment and wellness. Which, confusingly, all turn out all to be different things. The New Testament has four ways of thinking about love; as affection, friendship, charity and erotic attraction. Clearly, it can’t …