Great article with supportive data! I think one important piece to this is how God intended the role of men and women. God as the foundation creates sustainable and deeply centered marriages. Not necessarily happy marriages. That word happy is overrated in my opinion. You can't sustain happiness but you can sustain peace. Husband and wife both have such important, different jobs in the home. Women are led to believe submission is something degrading, when really it's something that can be beautiful when shared with a husband who as you said is present and committed. Whose every action and purpose is to lift his family. For a woman to be given that space of vulnerability is a treasure. Cultural christianity is replacing theological doctrine. I would say Road 3: Western Cultural Christianity. This road leads to greater influence of cohabitation and less influence over covenant marriage. Marriage is symbolic, not so much sacred. Personal happiness sometimes becomes the highest value.
This is excellent. It has always bothered me that we try to quantify absolutely everything in economic terms. Money cannot replace some things—least of all a warm, thriving, close-knit family.
Great article with supportive data! I think one important piece to this is how God intended the role of men and women. God as the foundation creates sustainable and deeply centered marriages. Not necessarily happy marriages. That word happy is overrated in my opinion. You can't sustain happiness but you can sustain peace. Husband and wife both have such important, different jobs in the home. Women are led to believe submission is something degrading, when really it's something that can be beautiful when shared with a husband who as you said is present and committed. Whose every action and purpose is to lift his family. For a woman to be given that space of vulnerability is a treasure. Cultural christianity is replacing theological doctrine. I would say Road 3: Western Cultural Christianity. This road leads to greater influence of cohabitation and less influence over covenant marriage. Marriage is symbolic, not so much sacred. Personal happiness sometimes becomes the highest value.
This is excellent. It has always bothered me that we try to quantify absolutely everything in economic terms. Money cannot replace some things—least of all a warm, thriving, close-knit family.
This is a great article. Thank you for setting out our situation – and the choices we face – with such candour and clarity.
Thanks for reading!
Excellent.