Category: Marriage

Carol on Being a Breast Cancer Survivor

Carol on Being a Breast Cancer Survivor

[March 2007] (Above: Carol some years back visiting my hometown of Fort Benton, Montana.) March is breast cancer awareness month. That isn’t lost on my wife and I, as we encountered breast cancer. My wife has been in remission for six or seven years, but neither of us will forget that time… ever. Below is an interview I’ve just done […]

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Mutuality in Bed (my seminar for Cornerstone 2007)

What follows is my presentation — or rather the closest written form of it I have — which I presented at Cornerstone Festival 2007′s CBE Tent this past July. It is a rough thing, a work still in progress, but perhaps will be of use to someone pondering a Scriptural feminist take on marital sexuality and/or biblical gender relations overall. […]

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Porn and young males: “Creating guys unable to navigate complexities of real life relationships.”

Porn and young males: “Creating guys unable to navigate complexities of real life relationships.”

Young men are becoming hooked on arousal via online porn, according to Psychologist Philip Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan. And as they do so, this results in catastrophe for both schoolwork and relationships with others.As the two researchers’ CNN article notes, such on-line images highly stimulate the brain. Parallels to drug addiction are partially correct, but not entirely: “[T]he attraction [in […]

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Dakota Johnson, star of “Shades of Grey,” Sez “I Have No Shame.” Should She?

Dakota Johnson, star of “Shades of Grey,” Sez “I Have No Shame.” Should She?

What follows began as a short paragraph or two and turned into a reflection upon larger things. Confession at the outset: No, I have not read the “Shades of Grey” series and I never shall. I have read fairly extensively reviews of the books both pro and con, as well as some lengthy clips from the books (the first one […]

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Water in the Desert of Love (Lyric)

Water in the Desert of Love (Lyric)

Water in the Desert of Love (c) 2011 Jon Trott There is sweet temptation that is pure There is a sensual touch that’s God-sure There is a thought, a breath, a word A name each heart beat said and heard Draw me to you in this laughter in these tears The personal mystery of our history ends fears You are… […]

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Poetry: Little House of Lies (by Jon Trott)

Poetry: Little House of Lies (by Jon Trott)

He was standing on the bottom of the abyss; there remained but a short distance in any method of mortal reckoning for him to take before he came to a more secret pit where there is no measurement because there is no floor. – Charles Williams, “Descent into Hell” All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world…. […]

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The Kama Sutra of the Soul (Poetry)

The Kama Sutra of the Soul (Poetry)

The Kama Sutra of the Soul by Jon Trott Here are exact instructions A Kama Sutra of the soul Making love with broken hands You lay me down to make me whole Making love with those ten fingers To the genital of my heart I lie still in desperation Whisper yes so you can start Every nook and every cranny […]

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Lessons from Carol Elaine

Lessons from Carol Elaine

Today, our twenty-fourth anniversary, I share just a few of the things my Carol Elaine Durkin Trott is to me. Teacher, Teacher I jump out of my skin When you touch me with your existence I cannot learn enough about you And the brilliant gold Of you, completely real, real. History happens, Regardless of philosophy or books Events progress inevitably […]

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