A Week of Love: Our Favorite Archives for Valentine's Day

Roses and chocolates are all well and good, but even better is the inspiration you can find through this collection of pieces from our archives on love in many forms.

• God's Vast Love: An Astronomer's View by Deborah Haarsma. Professor Deborah Haarsma shares some of her favorite astronomy photos and considers what they reveal to her as a Christian.
• Hunger, Satisfaction, and Mr. Willy Wonka by Ann Boyd. Explore the intersection of our hunger for God and for chocolate in this meditation on Roald Dahl's classic children's novel.
• Navigating Singleness: Finding Love That Will Not Let You Go by Grace Chiu. Amid the cacophony of advice from well-meaning friends, writer Grace Chiu finds the most difficult counsel she’s had to wrestle with is from God himself.
• This Valentine's Day I Have a Date with a Parking Lot by Ashley Hales. Ashley Hales considers the depths of love we find within the rituals of Ash Wednesday.
• Ten Ideas for Valentine's Day by Marcia Bosscher. Ambivalent about Valentine’s Day? Our writers suggest ten ways to make Valentine’s Day memorable.
• Academia Is Not a Waste of Time: Loving God with All Our Minds by Anna Plantinga. "Is academia a frivolous waste of time when we could be telling people about Jesus, or is there a deeper significance to a life of learning? And if learning is worthwhile on an eternal scale, are some questions more worthy than others?" Anna Plantinga reflects on these important questions.
• My Last Lecture by Grace Ju Miller. In addition to dreaming big and being strong in adversity, Grace Ju Miller exhorts us to trust God in the midst.
• Flourishing, not Fear: The Gift of Love (Part III) by MaryKate Morse. Iulia de Beausobre's response to torture under Stalin's regime models God's gift of love.