Issue 2, 2004
Volume 10, Number 2 · Five articles
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Church and Culture
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America 2003
Is marriage still about raising children? Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe report that Americans increasingly treat it as a bond between adults, and trace what that shift costs fathers, the law and children’s emotional wellbeing.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead & David Popenoe30 min read -
Church and Culture
What Marriage Is For
If any two adults can marry, what is marriage for? Maggie Gallagher argues that marriage exists to give children a mother and a father, and that redefining it would remove the very idea that holds the institution together.
Maggie Gallagher13 min read -
Church and Culture
I Do?
What are couples really promising when they say “I do”? David Blankenhorn argues that self-written vows without a pledge of permanence have emptied marriage of its meaning, and that pastors must take back the wedding.
David Blankenhorn8 min read -
Church and Culture
The Nordic Track
Could marriage disappear in a modern democracy? Gene Edward Veith summarizes Stanley Kurtz’s study of Scandinavia, where a majority of children are born outside marriage, and asks what the Nordic experience warns for America.
Gene Edward Veith4 min read -
Theology
Study of the Heidelberg Catechism, Study 2: Questions 3-11
Why has sin become the one subject nobody will mention? Stephen Eyre turns to the Heidelberg Catechism’s nine questions on sin to show how it joins law to relationship, and offers questions for reflection.
Stephen Eyre5 min read
