A Sound of Sheer Silence

Friend of the blog Liz Bruenig directed my attention to this article by Geoffrey Miller, discussing polyamory.   I've been thinking about this topic for a while, and this was the spur to put thoughts to electronic paper.  One thing about the article is, I think, inarguable--this topic is going to be with us for a long time to come, and is going to be more and more prominent in time.  Dr. Miller's article is a serious and thoughtful piece, and it deserves to be taking seriously and thoughtfully, which I hope to do here. Before getting into my views--and I know this is obnoxious, but please bear with me--I want to lay down a few markers.  First, my position is that marriage is fundamentally a human institution.  I recognize that this is a controversial position, especially among Christians of a moderate to conservative orientation (of which I consider myself, whether or not others would consider me so).  But I think that if you look at the concrete "facts on the ground&quo

" This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all." (1 John 1:5). 1. For those of you who are not nerds, or at least a certain sort of nerd, allow me to give you a brief primer on Warhammer . Warhammer  first came into existence as Warhammer Fantasy Battle , which is a tactical war game set in a medieval fantasy world using painted miniatures published by Games Workshop, a British game company.  The original miniatures game expanded into tabletop RPGs, video games, and other media, as well as the derivative Warhammer 40k,  which is basically Warhammer  in space (and, if anything, is even more popular and well known than the original fantasy version). But Warhammer is best known for being the origin point for the term "grimdark," which was derived from the original tag-line for Warhammer 40k --"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war."  "Grimdark"