Category: Marriage/Family

If we want our marriage partnership to be beautiful, meaningful and lasting, then we ought to be living out God’s grace by extending it. And that means building each other up one word at a time. My dad likes to tell the story about his first tool set. Although the tools were child-sized, they were substantial enough to use. So he set to work. It wasn’t until his parents crawled into bed that night that they discovered his handiwork — when the entire bed collapsed. My dad had managed to saw through the bed’s legs…

Black Marriage Day gives young people who live in communities where marriage isn’t the norm the chance to ‘hear from people who love being married.’

The advancement of human flourishing in the era of AI will require the government to make deliberate policy choices. Today, AI poses significant challenges to the family.

Who’s the spiritual leader in your family? Some husbands may be intimidated by their wife and don’t want to fail, so they do nothing. Maybe the best solution is to let God work in their lives.

The “no-kid” trend—that idea that a woman, to truly flourish and be free, should refrain from having children—has become, in France as elsewhere, a real mania. Young women publish an increasing number of essays, more or less inspired, in which they try to convince themselves and others that the world would be so much better if we did not reproduce.

Who is happy? What should you know about someone to predict their joyfulness? Does marital status predict happiness? It does, as sociologist Brad Wilcox amply documents in Get Married. Knowing that marriage matters, we can make marriage-supporting choices.

Imagine if couples were willing to give up some of the good things in their marriage to let the better things thrive — and if they said goodbye to the activities that take resources from their relationship. I recently found myself engrossed in an episode of Hoarders. If you are not familiar with this show, Hoarders lets you see in great detail the struggles of people who . . . well, hoard. Up close and personal, viewers witness what happens to people’s lives, families, health, and spiritual well-being when they are beset by one basic problem: The inability to let go of stuff.

A recent study by the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute reveals key factors that significantly enhance marital happiness among wives. The research indicates that four primary attributes in husbands – commitment, protectiveness, shared church attendance and regular date nights – lead to a much higher likelihood of wives reporting being “very happy” in their marriages.