The most-read Then & Now posts

Here are this year's most-read posts from Then & Now, a weekly blog edited by Edward Carson, Beth Shalom Hessel, and John D. Wilsey and presented in partnership with the Kripke Center of Creighton University.

1) What's the biblical definition of marriage? by Ronald A. Simkins. Often behind the "traditional definition of marriage" is the biblical tradition where, it is claimed, marriage was created by God between one male and one female. But this is not the only definition endorsed by the biblical tradition.

2) What the Bible does and does not say about sexuality, by Randall Balmer. I suggested that the ratio of evangelical denunciations about divorce and about same-sex orientation was directly inverse that in scripture. I’ve been responding to irate, indignant e-mails ever since.