For Whom No Wedding Bells Toll

Marriage rates are at a record low in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. In 2021, only 50% of American adults ...

Matrimony Is on the Decline

A national survey in 2014 for the Austin Institute showed that:

56% of evangelicals between ages 20 and 39 were currently married. Only 42% of the rest ...

An Inseparable Love

After being married for 68 years, Minnesota sweethearts died a day apart --a testament, their kids say, to their independence and devotion to each other. ...

Faithful Christian Marriage Models God's Love

Christopher Ash reflects on the testimony of Christian marriages in his recent book:

Some years ago a dispute arose in Britain between Foreign Office and ...

Husband with Alzheimer's Proposed Again to His Wife of 38 Years

Michael Joyce's memory and some of his speech have been snatched by Alzheimer's. The disease is so advanced that he forgot he was married to his wife ...

Famous Musician's Wisdom on Marriage

The singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen (a Jew who seems to have an interest in the person of Jesus Christ) once called marriage "the hottest furnace ...

Marriage Therapist: Couples Need Role Model to Inspire Them

A recent This American Life podcast features an interview between Ira Glass, the podcast host, and a marriage therapist named Esther Perel. Ira Glass ...

What Real Romance Looks Like in Marriage

For a culture that's bought into the photo-shopped notion that romance equals euphoria, or blissful self-fulfillment, or nonstop infatuation, writer Heather ...

Atheist Offers Wise Advice on Marriage

In an article in The New York Times, philosopher Alain de Botton claims that for 250 years many of us have been deluded by what he calls the Romantic ...

Marriage Sustains Love; Love Doesn't Sustain Marriage

While imprisoned by the Nazis in Tegal Prison's Cell 92, Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote a beautiful sermon for the wedding of his niece and his friend (Eberhard ...