Allan Carlson
When this article appeared in Theology Matters in 2005, Allan Carlson was president of the Howard Center in Rockford, Il (www.profam.org). His recent books include a new edition of The New Agrarian Mind (Transaction, 2004) and The “American Way”: Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity (ISI Books, 2003). “Five Rings and a Wedding” was adapted from a lecture he gave to the Family Research Council (www.frc.org) where he was a distinguished fellow in family policy studies.
One essay, 2005
2005
One essay
Five Rings & A Wedding: Marriage & The Concentric Communities That Surround ItIssue 2, 2005
Is a wedding only the business of the couple? Allan Carlson argues that five concentric communities have a stake in every marriage, from unborn children to…