Sentences with phrase «as part of your marriage»

As part of marriage preparation Catholics couples are paired with another catholic couple and they discuss how Natural Family Planning works and are available to answer questions.

IF we, the normal, naturally developed, un-deviated sector of humanity, decided to for example, give up JOINT TAX RETURN FILINGS as part of our marriages, you would see the pink triangle radicals drop the issue of same - deviant - marriages like a sack of rocks.

As part of a marriage mentoring program, I know that the data and literature tell a different story.

When two people join together as part of a marriage or an intimate relationship, various issues and struggles may arise as they strive to attain and maintain satisfaction.

Want to learn how to get back into flirting as part of your marriage?

Many churches offer one of these instruments to their engaged couples as part of their marriage preparation process, and most will be willing to let non-members take it as well.

There are some states that encourage pre-marriage counseling, and some religions offer it as part of a marriage ceremony package.

Ideally you will complete the package at least three months before your wedding as part of your marriage preparation.

Not exact matches

Porter's ex-wives claimed as part of the Daily Mail story that he physically and mentally abused them in their marriages.

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

The obvious question is: If the definition of marriage is so important to member colleges as a basis for such institutional connections, why was it not part of the articles of association to begin with?

Mr Ngole, who was studying for a Masters in Social Work, had signalled his opposition to gay marriage before posting part of Leviticus 20:13, which says: «If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination.»

Fewer working - class and poor Americans are marrying nowadays in part because marriage is seen increasingly as a sort of status symbol: a sign that a couple has arrived both emotionally and financially.

Since there is only one legal marriage contract on the government books in this family with the rest of the marriages being only spiritual cermonies to bind them each to one another, and there was no duplicity involved on the husband's part, I see no reason why they can not live the lifestyle they have freely chosen as consenting adults.

As part of my work over the last four years, I've spent a significant amount of time reading books in the Christian «marriage advice» genre: Real Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & marriage advice» genre: Real Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & Marriage, His Needs, Her Needs, Love & Respect.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

This article presents an in - depth defense of the conjugal view of marriage, and I included it on the reading list as part of my efforts to expose students to a range of viewpoints — religious and secular, progressive and conservative.

I don't know what God thinks, but to me if gay marriage is about family life and the possibility of raising children (in other words a desire on the part of gays to be accepted into married life as it exists) then I think it is a good thing for the same reasons that I think hetero families are good and necessary.

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

The married - sex - only agreement that Wheaton students and faculty sign is part of the college's Community Covenant, which says that students agree the Bible condemns «sexual immorality, such as the use of pornography, premarital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior and all other sexual relations outside the bounds of marriage between a man and woman.»

Healthy marriage interviews should be publicized as a regular important part of a church's enrichment program, using an announcement such as this:

As much beauty as I see within the context of a romantic relationship and as much as I've been overwhelmingly blessed within the committed relationship of my marriage, there is a deep part of me that revolts against the mentality that our most significant relationships can only take shape within the framework of a romantic relationshiAs much beauty as I see within the context of a romantic relationship and as much as I've been overwhelmingly blessed within the committed relationship of my marriage, there is a deep part of me that revolts against the mentality that our most significant relationships can only take shape within the framework of a romantic relationshias I see within the context of a romantic relationship and as much as I've been overwhelmingly blessed within the committed relationship of my marriage, there is a deep part of me that revolts against the mentality that our most significant relationships can only take shape within the framework of a romantic relationshias much as I've been overwhelmingly blessed within the committed relationship of my marriage, there is a deep part of me that revolts against the mentality that our most significant relationships can only take shape within the framework of a romantic relationshias I've been overwhelmingly blessed within the committed relationship of my marriage, there is a deep part of me that revolts against the mentality that our most significant relationships can only take shape within the framework of a romantic relationship.

He concludes that, since «sexual union is not part of the essence of marriage, as the Catechism of the Council of Trent and Vatican II teach, consequently, the exercise of the sexual act between divorced and [civilly] remarried couples does not harm the existing sacramental bond.»

Yet these modern Saints who have elected to live in plural marriage as the most dramatic and satisfying means of demonstrating total commitment to the fullness of the gospel are clearly a part of the picture.

In some parts, the bible defines marriage as ownership of a purchase.

(I know you've said I would be welcome, but you've also said that you wouldn't let a couple living together before marriage express a differing view of the issue from your own or so much as ladle soup for the homeless as part of your church.)

In Africa you would identify the encounter between religion and life, and marriage, and hunting, and every aspect of daily life as part and parcel.

Since these features of life are not about to change, divorce will remain an intrinsic part of married life, marriage and family are no longer synonymous, and we must aim not so much to prevent divorce as to prevent divorce's «negative consequences.»

When sex becomes a part of a relationship, as in marriage, a whole new set of possibilities and potential problems is introduced.

I am a scientist, a christian and as both i do not support gay marriage, i love gay people, they are my friends and part of my world, they need our help.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

Their strategy is to bombard us we as much rhetoric as possible until we submit and part from the Biblical truth and the definition of marriage.1 man + 1 woman in covenant with God = equal Holy Matrimony or commonly put marriage.

Catholic leaders in Minnesota have turned to mass mailings as part of a media blitz to try to keep marriage between a man and a woman.

As we've been discussing homosexuality as part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised by how many readers have contacted me about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and presenAs we've been discussing homosexuality as part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised by how many readers have contacted me about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and presenas part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised by how many readers have contacted me about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and present.

Over the last five years, a majority of those who have participated in our marriage workshops and groups have identified this as the «most helpful» part of the experience and the «most useful» tool they acquired.

Just as the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 undermined a key part of the conceptual framework that made potentially fruitful heterosexual intercourse the only acceptable kind of sex, so the gradual degradation in the popular understanding of marriage makes it very difficult for many people to conceptualise the Catholic argument against gay marriage.

Had the majority allowed the definition of marriage to be left to the political process — as the Constitution requires — the People could have considered the religious liberty implications of deviating from the traditional definition as part of their deliberative process.

The admission on the part of many homosexuals themselves that they have no interest in what they regard as the bourgeois oppressiveness of monogamy exposes the imposture of «same - sex marriage.»

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

As part of the closing session, each person told what he had learned in the group and how he intended to use this in working on his marriage.

Additionally and relatedly, the Church's opposition to same - sex marriage, to abortion, and to euthanasia are presented by the liberal commentariat, that has also been the main cheerleader for the «Yes» campaign, as indicating its unfitness to be part of a «new, equal, just and progressive Scotland.»

Well, some Christian denominations are starting to ignore parts of the bible that allude to gay marriage being wrong as well.

Mary's surrender at the foot of the cross to a plan that could in no way have been part of her own for herself or for her child figures as the centerpiece of her proposal of a Catholic feminism, which locates the foremost value of women not in forms of service to others (marriage, motherhood) but in service to God, in the decision to surrender to his plan.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

Some couples find it meaningful to speak their revised vows to each other, as a part of an informal love feast, a private celebration of the beginning of a new chapter in their marriage.

This guidance attracted a great deal of criticism as it stated that clergy could not take part in gay marriages and that no official liturgy would be produced for those who wish to bless same - sex unions.

More, as noted in my last post, if we recover our identity as Gentiles (as Rogers insists) we soon realize that we are not a part of this marriage.

And it will also be crucial to emphasise the fundamental unity that should exist between man and woman, male and female, the centrality of marriage not as a mere socially useful arrangement that might finally one day come into its own again, but as part of God's original plan «from the beginning», the great fact that the whole story of our redemption is a marriage story centred on Christ the Bridegroom and his Church, the Bride.