As our society debates what the definition of “marriage” should be, we would do well to remember that by defining a term at all, we must exclude everything that does not fit that definition. If we say that a chair must be a thing on which you can sit and which has four legs, we [...]
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What is Marriage?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage, National Review on April 7, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Strong Families and the Success Cycle
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Charles Murray, Coming Apart, family, marriage on April 7, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The best quote from the best article about Charles Murray’s new book about the facts regarding faith and family in America: In addition, he says, the upper class needs to abandon its nonjudgmentalism, start “preaching what it practices,” and stop being afraid to send the rest of America messages such as: People should not be [...]
Evaluating the Arguments For and Against Gay Marriage
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged civil discourse, debate, family, gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage on March 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My attempt at an objective analysis of some popular points: Pro-Gay Marriage Ban Arguments Evaluation Anti-Gay Marriage Ban Arguments Evaluation “Homosexuality is morally wrong.” WEAK. While people have the right to campaign for laws based on their beliefs, civil laws are not obligated to honor them. This opinion is actually irrelevant to the issue. “We’re [...]
2011: My Year In Self-Improvement
Posted in Living well, tagged discipleship, family, goals, home teaching, marriage, ministering, relationships, resolutions, romance, self improvement on December 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I set out to check four things off of my bucket list this year. One proved too arduous for now, and petered out in March. I finished the other three. One was seeing every film on AFI’s “100 Years, 100 Movies” list, except the R-rated ones. Finally finished in July. More on this next week. Another [...]
Defending Those Who Defend Marriage
Posted in Religion, tagged Catholic Church, cohabitation, family, marriage on September 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this year, a Catholic Archbishop in New Mexico made controversial national headlines because he dared to teach his flock about the sacred importance of marriage. Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan wrote in a pastoral letter: We are all painfully aware that there are many Catholics today who are living in cohabitation. The Church must make [...]
Yet More Research Shows That Cohabitation Hurts Kids
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged cohabitation, family, marriage on August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A new report this week documents the damage done to children who grow up in homes where parents live with partners without formal commitment: In the latter half of the 20th century, “divorce posed the biggest threat to marriage in the United States,” sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox and 17 other scholars said in a report [...]
The Real Reason the LDS Marriage Rate Is Going Down (Obviously)
Posted in Religion, tagged chastity, General Conference, marriage, millennials, young single adults on July 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
It would be impossible not to notice how much LDS Church leadership has stepped up the message that young people should be getting married*. Apparently, the rates of temple marriage and marriage in general have dropped off quite a bit for the 18-30 year-old young single adult set. As marriage is a bedrock of LDS [...]
On Exclusively Marrying Missionaries
Posted in Religion, tagged LDS Church, marriage, missionaries, Young Women on December 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Though it’s not any kind of official rule, there is a popular strain of thought among many Latter-day Saints that girls should only marry a returned missionary. I’ve seen this written as a laudable “goal” in some publications, and have heard it taught to young women in church many times, as well as hearing it as [...]
A Prophetic Institute Teacher
Posted in Politics and Society, Religion, tagged family, LDS Church, marriage, Proclamation on the Family on November 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I started college in the Fall of 1996, and enrolled in an Institute of Religion class. I remember one day we got into a discussion that involved the Church’s Proclamation on the Family. At the time, the proclamation was only a year old, and not yet as well known throughout the Church as it is today. During [...]
Five Great Long Term Love Songs
Posted in Arts, tagged Chris De Burgh, Collin Raye, Eric Clapton, Kenny Rogers, long term relationships, love songs, marriage, music, One Boy One Girl, Shania Twain, Still the One, The Lady In Red, Through the Years, Valentine's Day, Wonderful Tonight on February 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Most love songs are about falling in love, or getting back together, or just about lust. Few and far between are songs that celebrate being together in a stable, joyous relationship for a long time (especially marriage!). As Valentine’s Day comes up, here are the first five great songs I could think of about love that [...]
MYTH: “You have to live together before you get married”
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged cohabitation, cultural criticism, divorce, family, marriage on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last Saturday, I heard this one over and over as people used it as their talking point for a radio audition. I’m sure we’ve all heard this reiterated endlessly. It always surprises me how blithely people rattle this one off, with little thought for how vapid the argument really is. First, this thesis is usually [...]
Book of Moses Commentary Part V: What I Wish To Tell the Young Women of the Church
Posted in Religion, tagged Book of Moses, LDS Church, marriage, Mormons, scripture study, temple marriage, Young Women on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Moses 8:13-15 reads: “And Noah and his sons hearkened unto the Lord, and gave heed, and they were called the sons of God. And when these men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the sons of men saw that those daughters were fair, and they took [...]
I Did The Love Dare
Posted in Living well, tagged Fireproof, Love Dare, marriage, relationship, romance on June 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
After seeing the movie Fireproof with my wife recently, I wanted to do the love dare in it for my wife. I put the book on my hold list at the library. I couldn’t publish this until after the whole 40 days, because my wife reads this blog and I wanted it to be a surprise. [...]
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