Research Shows Cohabitation Harms Children

A 2011 research study co-authored by 18 family scholars from leading institutions released a report that shows the harmful effects of cohabitation on ...

Pastor Encourages a Young Woman to Live Celibate

Eugene Peterson shares a story about a completely unchurched young woman who started attending his church and made a genuine commitment to follow Jesus. ...

Our Preposterous Fantasies

God has made [our] fantasies … so preposterously unrewarding that we are forced to turn to him for help and for mercy. We seek wealth and find ...

Most Adults Still Have Feelings for Their "Ex"

Based on a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults:

• Forty-eight percent of men still have feelings for an ex-girlfriend or ex-wife.
• Thirty-seven percent of women still have feelings for an ex-boyfriend or ex-husband.

Intercessory Prayer for a Fearful Friend

Arlyn Lawrence writes in "The Other Great Commission?":

Carrie was a casual acquaintance from church—an outgoing person with a quick smile ...

Bonhoeffer on Love and Marriage

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:

Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through ...

Johnny Depp's Definition of Marriage

—Actor Johnny Depp said:

Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don't feel like I need a piece of paper that says I own her and ...

The Early Church's Take on Sex

Not a single church father can be found who did not assume that Christians should remain chaste before marriage.

In the early second century, the Roman ...

Why Some Men Avoid Marriage

According to a study from the National Marriage Project of Rutgers University, the top 10 reasons why men are reluctant to commit to marriage are:

1. They ...

Missionary Dating to the Extreme

Journalist Terry Mattingly writes:

Church people have a name for what happens when young believers get romantically involved with unbelievers. They call ...