{"id":5681,"date":"2016-02-24T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2016-02-24T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:17:06","slug":"face2face-cohabitation-the-question-of-living-together-before-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2016\/face2face-cohabitation-the-question-of-living-together-before-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Face2Face | Cohabitation: The Question of Living Together Before Marriage (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><br \/>\nIncreasingly, our faith communities, pastoral leaders and families are encountering the broad, cultural reality of cohabitation. Bringing deeply held theological convictions into conversation with practices outside of these persuasions can be challenging. Dialogue and conversation are vital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat clarity might we gain on the Biblical, theological, sociological \/\u00a0cultural, and relational dynamics that underlie the reality of cohabitation? What makes this practice challenging to openly discuss within our church communities, as families and with young adults we know and love? How can we best resource and learn from one another?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panel Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/about.php?s=faculty&amp;id=484\" target=\"_blank\">Irma Fast\u00a0Dueck<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Associate Professor of Practical Theology at CMU<\/li>\n<li><strong>John\u00a0Neufeld\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Pastor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themeetingplace.mb.ca\/#\/home\" target=\"_blank\">The Meeting Place<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/about.php?s=staff&amp;id=116\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rebecca\u00a0Steiner<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 CMU Recruitment Coordinator, representing the diverse voices of young adults<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/about.php?s=staff&amp;id=13\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Peters<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Program Manager with\u00a0CMU&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.outtatown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outtatown\u00a0Discipleship Program<\/a>,\u00a0representing the diverse voices of young adults<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Recorded February 2, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zyAfAp_EFS0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context Increasingly, our faith communities, pastoral leaders and families are encountering the broad, cultural reality of cohabitation. Bringing deeply held theological convictions into conversation with practices outside of these persuasions can be challenging. Dialogue and conversation are vital. Focus What clarity might we gain on the Biblical, theological, sociological \/\u00a0cultural, and relational dynamics that underlie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[518,1,8],"tags":[745,146,460,91,363,744,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}