Sentences with phrase «marriage culture in»

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Like the one from Laura Jones who learned lots about the culture (and marriage proposals) in Ecuador when she first moved there.

My former colleague Ryan T. Anderson has a piece today on The Public Discourse in which he outlines how Princeton's Anscombe Society has had success in responding to the hook - up culture on college campuses: by arguing for chastity, marriage, and the family on rational grounds.

I acknowledge the justice of David F. Forte's description of the damage that marriage has suffered in the larger culture, but I do not think my conclusion was Pollyannaish at all.

In addition, his comments leave some of us non-Catholics asking, Is the Pope right about the state of marriage and culture's idea of commitment?

While I'm willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here.

We throw away everything in our culture — even the things that should never be thrown away, things that are designed to last for a lifetime — like marriages.

In any event, no amount of pro-family and pro-marriage agitation can cover up the contradiction of Christian acquiescence in a culture of divorce that produces disposable spouses and turns the solemn covenant of marriage into a contract of conveniencIn any event, no amount of pro-family and pro-marriage agitation can cover up the contradiction of Christian acquiescence in a culture of divorce that produces disposable spouses and turns the solemn covenant of marriage into a contract of conveniencin a culture of divorce that produces disposable spouses and turns the solemn covenant of marriage into a contract of convenience.

Other writers have described other causes: the lobbying for same - sex marriage, the feminists» push for liberation from marriage duties, their legislative victories in getting states to adopt unilateral divorce, the culture's glorification of single moms, and the financial incentives for illegitimacy and divorce that flow from the welfare, child support, and domestic violence bureaucracies.

That marriage is a universal institution found in all cultures.

The scripture passage cited is clear example of how woman were protected in a culture where «virginity» was a pre-qualifying event for eligible marriage material.

The problem with the evangelical purity culture, as I see it, isn't that it teaches saving sex for marriage, but that it equates virginity with sexual wholeness and therefore as something that can be lost or given or taken away in a single moment.

@ 0G - No gods, ghosts, goblins or ghouls — agreed the Bible says that — but strangely - every culture on this planet in no way recognizes that marriage is anything other than a man and a woman.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

Their lived experience of the effects of contraception, abortion, divorce, and infidelity on their generation has made them passionate about the need for our entire culture - not only Catholics - to embrace the challenge andauthentic freedom embodied in the fullness of the Church's teaching on marriage, family, and sexuality.

In which I disagree with Candace Cameron Bure about «biblical» marriage:: I read Bure's comments about «biblical marriage» and I had to respond to that phrase in particular as she re-ignited the conversation in pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagIn which I disagree with Candace Cameron Bure about «biblical» marriage:: I read Bure's comments about «biblical marriage» and I had to respond to that phrase in particular as she re-ignited the conversation in pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagin particular as she re-ignited the conversation in pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagin pop culture about what Christians really believe about headship / submission in marriagin marriage.

Mathewes - Green's response, presumably, would be that a society that weds young has strong marriages, while an individual who marries young in a late - marrying culture is at risk.

In terms of biology and maturity, there is no reason teen marriage could not succeed, if the culture expects and supports it.

It only allows the woman to go so far in their friendship, community, and their culture before she must surrender her gifts, her body, her decision - making process to the embedded sexism in the marriage and surrounding community.

Furthermore, the elaborate patterns of culture connected with birth, initiation, courtship, marriage, illness, and death all express responses to the insistent demands of natural existence in particular circumstances of space and time.

How can our religious communities renew the culture of marriage in a society burnt over by the sexual revolution?

Despite massive changes in gender roles, sexuality, and young - adult patterns of employment and family formation, marriage culture at Christian colleges and universities remains very strong.

Purity culture also creates a push toward marriage as a redemptive state that can «erase» sexual sins in a relationship.

It is not impossible that in the not too distant future gay activism as we have known it will have taken its place in the history of popular culture along with wife - swapping and «open marriages.»

When the Hebrew people talked about adultery, they were living in a culture where marriage followed very shortly after puberty, within one year at the maximum.

Indeed, it will lock in the distorted view of marriage as an institution primarily concerned with adult romantic desires, and make the rebuilding of the marriage culture much more difficult.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriagIn today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriagin the yoking of a man and a woman in marriagin marriage.

Barna attributes the difference to the more secular culture millennials have grown up in and played a role in shaping, where gender norms, career paths and plans for marriage continue changing.

Nonetheless, the bishops maintain that lovers who want to be married as Catholics are a sign of hope in a culture where marriage seems superfluous.

Culture involves specific actions or rituals to be performed in a given way at different stages of life such as birth, marriage and funerals within a community, and these acquire the value of tradition.

Bargaining and barter were and are known in all the cultures that have developed moral and religious traditions, most of which have well - known maxims and principles that deal with the vast spectrum of social and moral issues, from fair weight to marriage contracts, bred in the marketplace.

So woman's status being more determined by her being a virgin than it would be for a man in that culture and that affecting to a large degree her ability to attract a marriage partner.

Because all of Scripture is culturally directed — i. e., because all of it was written for a particular situation and out of a particular context - the evangelical can not use the issue of culture to distinguish between arguments for women's place in marriage and her place in the church.

I am all for the marriage of culture with faith (being a First Nations person in Canada — out in Sask)-- and I see great benefits for the culture that is kept alive by Christianity.

The conference will continue to address other topics relating to marriage; specifically addressing the nature of marriage itself which is being questioned so frequently in contemporary culture.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

«The gay movement is an evil insti.tution [whose] goal is to defeat the marriage - based society and replace it with a culture of se.xual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on se.xual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.»

«This commandment encounters us concretely in four different forms that find their unity only in the commandment itself, namely, in the church, marriage and family, culture and government.»

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

In any particular culture, particular rationalizations may be just as strongly protected as marriage; the difference is that while the rationalizations vary from culture to culture, the core does not.

The culture seems to be moving in a direction that affirms gay marriage.

By no means are we contending that Catholics have been untouched by the corrosive atmosphere of our present culture, but the Church has not stopped teaching the ideal of marriage that is the bedrock of what we find beautiful in family life.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

In the face of our sexually - dysfunctional culture, the Church longs to stand as an outpost of God's ways of love and marriage, purity and wholeness.

But working - class families, who in the not - so - distant past enjoyed a strong marriage culture and steady work, are fragile.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

As we live in a culture that has just defined marriage in a way contrary to what evangelicals and others believe, we must understand that, as Christians, we aren't the only ones who care about marriage.

Some men in minority cultures are finding, as they move into the middle - class world through job or profession, that friendship between women and men is possible and that a companionship marriage can be more satisfying than the one they have grown up with and married into.

Though it is easy to make the case in the church that homosexual practice (and marriage) is incompatible with scripture, it will be an exceedingly difficult case to make in today's culture.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

In a similar vein, ought we simply to acquiesce to rapidly changing sexual mores and a deteriorating marriage culture because they have become the norm?