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Let me be perfectly clear: No matter how many ads for Christian dating services you hear or trendy books you read, we simply don’t have “ soul mates ,” at least as our confused culture understands that term. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. Look for that concept, by the way, in the Bible, and the only thing you can find remotely close to it is the fierce  friendship  of David and Jonathan . “Jonathan made a covenant with David,” Scripture says, “because he loved him as his own soul.” Now  those  are soul mates, friends. But the Bible knows  nothing  of  romantic  “soul mates.” This concept is more New Age than Christian. The Huffington Post gives nine signs that you’ve found your soul mate , the first one being: “You communicate without speaking.” Okay. One New Age website, however, gives  three  signs you’ve “definitely” found your soul mate: “You just connect without trying,” “Your level of communication is unmatched,” and “You create your own world together.” That’s

English: Sigmund Freud (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Since time immemorial, marriage has meant the union of a man and a woman for life, usually for the purpose of raising children. But today marriage tends to mean just about any relationship you can think of—first so-called same-sex marriage, now polyamory, or even polygamy are said to be just as valid. But it doesn’t stop there. So hold onto your cummerbund, because I’ve got a new one for you. It’s known as sologamy—marrying oneself. Or as Dr. Timothy George of Beeson Divinity School called it in a recent First Things article, “same-self marriage.” Dr. George, of course, was a close colleague of Chuck Colson and the past president of the Colson Center’s Board of Directors. Although sologamy isn’t a big trend yet (but then again, neither were other forms of “marriage”), Dr. George points to several notable examples. Author Sara Sharpe wrote about her self-marriage bliss in her book “A Dress, A Ring, Promises to Self.” Meanwh