Speed Dating gives valuable information about locating your soul mate without waiting precious time. Many factors go into finding that special mate. Authors Yaacov and Sue Deyo advise inner personal qualities as more important than immediate physical chemistry.

In addition, they stress the importance of having goals for yourself as well as a relationship. It is emphasized that no person is perfect. However, the authors advise that each person should determine which traits in a mate are extremely necesary and others are not necessary. The illustrations that support these points are excellent.

This is an excellent book to re-read to further teach yourself good dating habits. It is a little basic in spots, but most open minded people can learn a great deal of Speed Dating.

I think this book is GREAT! I really enjoyed reading it a lot. The author's style is very easy to read and yet offers solid, practical advice about how to avoid the pitfalls of dating and making bad choices in today's dog eat dog singles world. Lots of great, interesting first hand accounts from both the authors and people they know. I think that this book is a MUST for all singles, whether you are 19 or 59, male or female, a religious person or a non-religious person - it doesn't matter. This book has something important to say to everyone. As a man, I feel I particularly benefited from the insights I got into women - better than the Mars-Venus stuff. My only question is: Why didn't they write this book years earlier when I started dating?! A top notch book that every single person should read.

When you're ready to stop wasting time dating the wrong person, read this book. The Speeddating way is to ask your date the right questions early in the courtship to spot the red flags BEFORE you find yourself deeply involved with this person for the wrong reasons-reasons like convenience, security/lifestyle or simply because the sex is just too good! Asking targeted questions also helps you to discover your own core values and to search for a life partner who will share those values. The methodology outlined in this book significantly reduces the pain of dating. Believe me!

Reading this book gave me new insight into why I married my ex-husband. We were what the authors call "defaulters-those who become so enmeshed in a relationship before making a commitment that they never really know where dating ends and the relationship begins." After living together in college and then moving cross country together for his law school, we eventually felt obligated toward marriage. We'd joke that our grandchildren's running gag about us would be, "Our grandparents lived together for 30 years and were married for 3." So we ultimately married because we couldn't imagine living without each other-not because we were so deeply in love-but because our coupledom was such a comfortable and professional and economically sustaining habit and because everyone in our families treating us accordingly. It took this book to clarify the obvious: that dating is a process, dating is not the relationship. Based on a system of core values that started to emerge when we discussed having children, my ex and I couldn't have been more diametrically opposed in the areas of religion, lifestyle and balancing household responsibilities.

So, please, save yourself heartache and years of treading water in a wrong relationship. If you're not on the same page as your partner, it's because YOU didn't ask the right questions and align yourself with someone whose heart is in the same place as yours. You want to be with someone in whom you see greatness and who sees greatness in you. This book shows you how to take responsibility for who you really are and how to attract the partner who will help you realize your full potential.

Students of church-related higher education have good reason to thank Merrimon Cuninggim. From the middle '40s until his recent death, Cuninggim traced the relationship between "church" and "college". In this work, Cuninggim leaves behind the awkward categories of church-relatedness ("Proclaiming College", "Embodying College") and plumbs more deeply what it means for a denomination to work with a church-related university. The reader will enjoy his cool-headed discussion.

One wishes Cuninggim were more thorough in his assignment of colleges to particular denominations (he misplaces several colleges)and that he examined Marsden's views (The Soul of the American University) with more care. Otherwise, an important addition to the literature.