Category Archives: Church Apathy About Divorce

Reframing Christian marriage part 4: judging the performance.

Christian wives have been taught to see their role in biblical marriage primarily as a judge of their husband’s obligation to love them as Christ loved the church.  This is as I showed in the beginning of the series essential … Continue reading

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Reframing Christian marriage

Modern Christians have radically reframed marriage from the way the bible does.  Where the bible shows the husband in headship and the wife as submissive, modern Christians have turned this upside down.  The re-framing is so pervasive that most Christians … Continue reading

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Godly unashamed unwed mothers.

The contrast between how modern Christians treat good faithful fathers and unrepentant unwed mothers is truly astounding.  For the latest installment of this, I offer you the CBN.com (Christian Broadcasting Network, 700 Club) article Janine Turner: Single Mothers Can Change … Continue reading

Posted in Aging Feminists, Child Custody, Choice Addiction, Church Apathy About Divorce, Courageous, Denial, Foolishness, Glenn Stanton, Motherhood, Stantons Heroes | 282 Comments

Texas U.S. Senate candidate is proud to have been raised by one of Stanton’s heroes!

I was in the car this afternoon and heard an ad for US Senate Candidate Tom Leppert.  What struck me was this part: Raised by a single mom and self-made in the Texas tradition, Tom Leppert is a man I’ve … Continue reading

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Threatpoint

When discussing the topic of changes in divorce law we typically talk about divorce theft and how this causes men to be understandably hesitant to marry, as well as the impact it has on men and their children who are … Continue reading

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What, Me Worry?

As I mentioned yesterday Darwin Catholic (DC or Mr. Darwin for brevity moving forward) has a post up titled How To Marry a Nice Girl in response to my post Rules of the road for fornication.  At the time I … Continue reading

Posted in Church Apathy About Divorce, Denial, Divorce, Fatherhood, Marriage, Uncategorized | 406 Comments

Special thanks to Chris and Laura G. Robins

I have been remiss since my return in not thanking Chris (Dark Brightness) and Laura G. Robins (Full of Grace, Seasoned with Salt) for creating threads on their own blogs allowing the discussion regarding the outraged women at Christianforums.com to … Continue reading

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Christians washing their hands of sexual morality.

Commenter Drew was kind enough to propose that his church measure divorce, and reported back when he found himself at an impasse (emphasis mine): I suggested tracking the divorce rate for our church to one of the elders. He encouraged … Continue reading

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The women at Christianforums are outraged!

You may recall the Christian forum I linked to in my post From cornerstone to stepping stone; the mainstream Christian view of marriage.  They are outraged that their private conversation on the internet has been quoted on this site!  How dare I … Continue reading

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Why so many wives wish their husbands would cheat.

A number of readers have pointed out the article on Huffington Post:  I Just Wish He Would Have An Affair!  Click the link for the full post, but in a nutshell it describes the surprisingly common phenomenon of wives expressing … Continue reading

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