How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

by Harrison Scott Key

Maybe the only people who believe in miracles are the people who have no other option.

Maybe some of these questions disqualify me from calling myself a Good American Christian, but I’m not worried about the approval of whitewashed tombs who can’t tell the difference between doubt and wonder. Those people are afraid to admit they don’t know the answers to those questions, either. I take comfort in what Augustine once said, quoted by Soren in a sermon not long ago: “If you have understood God, then what you have understood is not God.”

Audacity, therapy, honesty, intimacy, nudity, a belief in transcendent profundity, a loving community that does not bless the whims of your ego but loves you anyway: You need all these to stay married, and a thousand million other mercies besides, including perhaps the most obvious and impossible of virtues. You need comedy.