Engagement & Newlyweds Archives

Since we began writing this column, my mom and I have covered almost every topic pertaining to marriage––from housework to kids to romance....

Sometimes our past relationship baggage can bump into a tender place in our mate's heart, and hurt them.

It's tempting to depend on your spouse to fulfill you in life. After all, our culture worships romantic love. But when my wife, Norma, started...

The sociological research presents a clear case for social concern, but the Christian case against mixed-faith marriage emerged long before the...

Is contraception a sin? The very suggestion made Bryan Hodge and his classmates at Chicago's Moody Bible Institute laugh. Then Hodge started to...

Lack of a dating life is not necessarily the fault of single individuals in our churches; it's part of a bigger problem. But church leaders can...

Is marriage good for children and families, or not? Does it really matter whether Tripp's parents, Bristol Palin and Levy Johnston, get married?...

The Newsweek article represents what may be the most direct journalistic attack on marriage in our times, presenting arguments that had to date...

I stepped back and surveyed my boy, the groom. He towered over me, tall and confident. He's ready, I thought. But am I? I'd played the role of...

The Globe and Mail recently suggested that women who get married should say "I don't" to changing their name. Is this advice wise?

Weddings can bring up a lot of feelings we thought we had taken care of and buried.

A while back I posted a question from Calvin, a Reformed dispensationalist fundamentalist, and Aimee, a Pentecostal, who have fallen in love and...

Spouse and I are in love. We're crazy about each other. But there are times when we disagree. So, when we drop on two different sides of an issue,...

In Then Comes Marriage?: A Cultural History of the American Family, author Rebecca Price Janney names the distinction between secular and Christian...

It's not just an old saying: When it comes to couples and money, opposites do attract.