Why Love Will Always Be A Poor Investment [Hardcover]

Description: Marriage is intimate. Marriage is hard sober thoughts for a time when movies and television tell us that love is supposed to be romantic and fun. In this eclectic blend of playful and earnest storytelling, social commentary, and fierce argument, Kurt Armstrong offers an up-close look at real-life marriage and the countless ways it differs from what the advertisers tell us it should be. With wisdom, wit, and profound honesty, he explores the aching beauty of love, the ongoing struggle to maintain vows, and the reality of death as the finishing line of covenant. Even if love one day fills my heart full of grief, says Armstrong, it is still the only thing worth living for. This moving, honest, heartfelt look at real-life marriage will strike a chord with single men and women, young couples, and seasoned veterans of married life. Endorsements: Awfully good. In the often brutally candid (and therefore redemptive) witness of Kurt Armstrong, there are no corners of human experience beyond the interest and affection of God's inescapably earthbound economy. With wit, verve, and eye-rubbingly honest straightforwardness, Armstrong presents the self (his self and ours) as the inescapably social gift of others and life in God as the identity we hold to loosely to find, again and again, in the sacred everyday. With one feat of attentiveness after another, he expands the space of the talkaboutable. --David Dark author of The Sacredness of Questioning Everything Somehow, after reading Why Love Will Always Be a Poor Investment, marriage as we know it in North America is no longer possible, and that's a good thing. With wit, imagination, satire, and a brilliant awareness of the cultural hurdles we face, Armstrong clarifies what a new faithfulness might mean for those of us seeking to be married in these times. Thank you Kurt Armstrong for this book! --David Fitch author of The Great Giveaway Armstrong's reflections on love and marriage are romantic l+