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I Kissed Dating Good Bye – part three

In this post I will touch briefly on courtship and then move to why IKDG is controversial. In IKDG Harris doesn’t really go into the process of courtship. This is because Harris has written a whole other book on the subject called ‘Boy Meets Girl’. I haven’t read ‘Boy Meets Girl’ (yet!) but this is [...]
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye – part two

The book is back. First I want to deal with something that came up in the comments. In NZ we don’t really have a culture of dating, especially among those in their teens and early twenties. Young people tend to meet each other in group situations and would become a steady couple with out going [...]
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye – part one

This book was first published over 10 years ago. Because it has been around a while some of the ideas had filtered in to the Christian community. So before I began reading this book I was not unfamiliar with Joshua Harris’s ideas. In the first part of I Kissed Dating Goodbye (IKDG) Harris draws on [...]
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I’ve kissed dating good bye

I bet there is no surprise there, I’ve been married to the Hubster for almost 15 years. While on Holiday I read Joshua Harris’s book ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’. You may wonder why a women in her 30’s who has been married for a long time wanted to read a book about dating. I have [...]
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Hello, any one there?

Stand by for more regular posts. I have had major ‘stuff’ happen in my life this year. Who know that was going to happen? (Well God I guess). Anyway I have finished with university for the year. So I’m planning to air my opinions more often. The first new innovation will be a review of [...]
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