Sentences with phrase «of marriage culture»

When you come up with something, give it some time to sink in and become part of your marriage culture.

In considering the demise of marriage culture and the decline of the institution of marriage, we are profoundly aware of the challenge posed by the Lord, that «whatever you did to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me» (Matt.

Long before there was a debate about same - sex anything, far too many people bought into a liberal ideology about sexuality that makes a mess of marriage: Cohabitation, no - fault divorce, extra-marital sex, non-marital childbearing, massive consumption of pornography and the hook - up culture all contributed to the breakdown of our marriage culture.

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.

Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, by Mary Eberstadt (Ignatius Press): The Catholic Church is going to spend a lot of the next eighteen months wrestling with the crisis of marriage culture throughout the world, given the two Synods on the subject that Pope Francis has called for October 2014 and October 2015.

Not exact matches

What cracked the surface here, then, was the culture war being waged over same - sex marriage — not commitment to theological robustness and the essentials of the faith.

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.

As gay marriage «sank into the subtle background consciousness of a culture, its influence would be felt quietly but deeply among gay children.

Culture evolves and so will your understanding of marriage (eventually).

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.

Recognition of marriage serves the ends of limited government more effectively, less intrusively, and at less cost than does picking up the pieces from a shattered marriage culture.

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 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.

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.

Because we've spent a good deal of time here discussing the harmful effects of a shame - based purity culture that treats people who have had sex before marriage as «damaged goods» by comparing them to polluted water or chewed - up gum (see «Do Christians Idolize Virginity?»

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.

The goal, obviously, would be a culture - wide reaffirmation of young marriage.

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

Many Christian women I know are seeking counseling to remedy sexual dysfunction within their marriages — dysfunction that relates back to an oppressive culture that refuses to acknowledge female sexuality and which blames women for perversions of male sexuality.

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.

It really inspires me to think that maybe my generation will be the one to sever the marriage between evangelicalism and politics, end the culture wars, and redirect our efforts toward feeding the hungry, helping the homeless, advocating for the helpless, pursuing racial reconciliation, supporting single moms, rejecting the seductive pull of power and violence, and earning a repuation as peacemakers.

The key organs of popular culture have declared dissenting views on sexuality and marriage unfit for polite conversation, setting off occasional high - profile witch hunts against dissenters and enabling an environment of intimidation well beyond those.

Christians should not view those who advocate the redefinition of marriage as arch-enemies who are conspiring to take over the culture.

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.

The LDS culture nurtures the concept of chastity, before and after marriage, for both males and females.

She challenges evangelical communities to consider how to honor their theological principles associated with gender, sexuality, and marriage while minimizing the negative impact of purity culture.

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.»

They bear a great resemblance to what Pope John Paul II called «the culture of death», with its downgrading of marriage, its advocating of euthanasia, abortion and contraception.

Especially with the purity culture tactic of promising the boys Barn - Burning Swinging From The Chandeliers Dynamite Married S * E * X if they only save themselves for marriage.

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 marriage.

Given the neo-bourgeois uniformity of Belmont — marriage as the norm, infrequent divorce, very few illegitimate births — Murray finds this nonjudgmentalism «one of the more baffling features of the new - upper - class culture.»

Otherwise we will be left only with Gold's meager hope that marriage and all of morality might somehow survive the ravages of culture.

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.

Coontz ranges widely over the cultures and societies of the world, discussing a great variety of marriage practices.

Marriage has happened for thousands of years before your bible was written, and many cultures world wide have same $ ex marriages, including many native american cultures.

Blankenhorn divides history into two sexual cultures — a prehistoric culture of «prostitution, cohabitation, and males as inseminators - not - fathers» and an enlightened culture of marriage where men become nurturing fathers and lifelong husbands.

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.

The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

So his defense of community, culture, marriage, and such doesn't depend on going back to an earlier stage of the division of labor.

A friend of mine once remarked that, while the redefinition of marriage does have troubling consequences for the continuity of society, what John Paul II has rightly called the «culture of death» is far more sinister, another order of evil entirely.

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.

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

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.

We have further affirmed that the only true and possible understanding of marriage is as the permanent bond between a man and a woman — a truth that has been acknowledged for millennia across innumerably diverse cultures.

And he has noted what any person of common sense has also noted: «The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

For millennia every human culture has recognized the bond linking sex, marriage, and the generation of human life, and frowned on begetting children out of wedlock.