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August 2025

August 15, 2025

A Marriage Renaissance?

New evidence shows that divorce is down, more children are living with their married parents,...

September 2023

September 14, 2023

The Christian View of Marriage

The Christian view of the nature of marriage and its purposes is stated both in...

July 2023

July 11, 2023

Marriage and Culture

The pastoral care journal "Seelsorger" asked me to write an article about marriage and culture....

May 2023

May 01, 2023

Monday Miscellany 5/1/23

A new religious holiday, recruiting gamers into the military, and Johnny Rotten as model husband.

May 24, 2022

Weddings as the End vs. Weddings as the Beginning

Traditionally, says Michael Warren Davis, weddings were seen as a beginning, the start of a...

February 2022

February 16, 2022

The Effect of Weddings on Marriages

Research has found that having a formal wedding ceremony, complete with as many family and...

February 14, 2022

Don’t Have Too Many Valentines

Research shows that the more romantic, sexual, or cohabiting experiences a person has had, the...

February 10, 2022

The Myths about Cohabitation and Late Marriage

The conventional wisdom today is that living together before getting married can help you make...

December 2021

December 15, 2021

The Dwindling Nuclear Family

What is the percentage of American households that consist of a married couple with children?...

November 2021

November 12, 2021

Should Couples and Their Pastor Reject Marriage Licenses?

In light of same-sex marriage, some couples and pastors are wanting to repudiate state laws...

August 2021

August 06, 2021

Golden Anniversary

On August 7, 2021, Jackie and I will have been married 50 years. We did...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

And now, Sex-Free “Friend Marriage”

Among the plethora of marriage variations available today, we now have people who are marrying...

May 29, 2020

The Lockdown Is Helping Relationships

Yes, the coronavirus lockdown has been terrible. But a study has found that, on the...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

St. Valentine Then and Now

Stella Marabito draws parallels between St. Valentine's martyrdom for defending marriage against the Roman state...

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Marriage as Enforceable Contract

Marriage is a sacred covenant, but it is also a secular contract. Though some say...

August 2019

August 25, 2019

Our Book on Family Vocation Is On Sale This Week, for Cheap

Crossway is holding a sale on the e-book of Family Vocation: God's Calling in Marriage,...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

The Women of Proverbs & the Bible’s Family Dramas

The estimable Peter Leithart has written a must-read piece in First Things entitled Heroic Domesticity. It begins...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

How the Left Gave Us “Toxic Masculinity”

Complaints about "toxic masculinity" often come across as complaints about "masculinity." The Gillette ad on...

December 2018

December 11, 2018

The Problem with Evangelical Vows of Celibacy

The "Abstinence Movement or the "evangelical purity culture," call it what you will, is getting...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Josh Harris Recants “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”

Josh Harris launched the "courtship movement" with his book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Instead of...

May 2018

May 04, 2018

On Catholics’ “Indissolubility” of Marriage from a New Lutheran Blog

I have blogged about my former student John Ehrett, who wrote that perceptive review of...

October 2017

October 17, 2017

From “Sologamy” to Marriage as Vocation

Jim Priest, a family columnist for the Daily Oklahoman, discussed "sologamy," the growing practice of marrying...

September 2017

September 08, 2017

Secularization Comes From Sex

Cohabiting couples tend to stay away from church. So do others engaged in sexual practices...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

A confessional text on marriage, natural law & human law

Since Lutherans believe that marriage is a civil ordinance rather than a sacrament (though still...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Marriage Is a Civil Matter, Not a Church Power

Lutherans particularly cannot "leave the government out of marriage." Their confessions and theology don't let...

April 2017

April 05, 2017

Exploding myths about cohabitation

University of Virginia sociologist Bradford Wilcox has published a study of the effects of cohabitation,...

February 2017

February 14, 2017

The two kinds of romantic love

One kind of romantic love leads to life--to marriage, fruitful sexuality, children, family, virtue. The...

February 06, 2017

Pastors have happier marriages, stronger families than usual

Barna Research has published a new study on the problems, challenges, and personal life of...

September 2016

September 02, 2016

The ethical non-monogamy community

Carl Trueman reflects on an interview with a member of "the ethical non-monogamy community." That...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

Pope says most married people aren’t really married

Roman Catholicism famously doesn't believe in divorce. But it does believe in annulments, a procedure...