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Love: Is It Worth the Hassle?

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Why is the experience of love at the same time so desirable and yet so painful and frustrating? We want it and yet it hurts. With the help of three writers (Robert Sternberg, Scott Peck and C.S.Lewis), love and its siblings, pain and reality, are traced back to their origin in the heart of God, and to the lessons we may learn from the God who was love incarnate.

 

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John Bowen

John Bowen was Professor of Evangelism and Director of the Institute of Evangelism at Wycliffe College from 1997 till 2013. Now retired, he is happily engaged in preaching, teaching, mentoring, and writing. His most recent books are God is Always Bigger: Reflections of a Hopeful Critic (2021) and The Unfolding Gospel: How the Good News Makes Sense of Discipleship, Church, Mission, and Everything Else (2021). He also writes a monthly column, “In Other Words,” in The Niagara Anglican. John is married to Deborah, an English professor. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.

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