Sentences with phrase «years of marriage as»

They enjoyed many years of marriage as a family of two, and are now embarking on a new adventure as a family of five!

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«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

«In some states, the courts will agree to tack on prior years of cohabitating... so it's viewed as a longer - term marriage than the legal date,» Kauffman said.

The current batch of RFRA laws, such as the one about to be signed in Arkansas, are thought to circumvent successes that same sex marriage has had in the past few years.

With the mean time from funding to exit for a startup increasing from 2 - 5 years in the early 2000s to an average of 6 - 10 years today, an employee may hold illiquid stock for quite some time while undergoing major life events such as marriage, birth of a child, home purchase, or graduate education.

About two years ago, my wife, Minhee, and I made one of the hardest decisions we've made thus far in our marriage and in our calling as parents.

With the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic tMarriage Act last year and same - sex marriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic tmarriage now imposed by court after court, it's hard to sustain the illusion, much cherished by the secular left as a scare tactic, that our country is on the brink of a theocratic takeover.

These programs work most of the time, as I have seen as a marriage and family counselor for over 30 years.

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.

He caught there what we would see played out, with a venomous, unbending force a year later, as the votaries of same - sex marriage would seek to bring down the hammer of the law on such luminaries as bakers and florists.

When it came, though, to the force of dissents read aloud, nothing compares with the dissent he delivered in 2013, in the Windsor case, when the Court teed up the decision it would render two years later in proclaiming same - sex marriage as a constitutional right:

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?!)

As the decorative plaque that reads «Family is Forever» and the framed photos in their living room suggest, Julia and Rob, a couple for 12 years with hopes of marriage in the future, want desperately to make a home together....

He was proved to be absolutely prophetic when, just ten years later, the court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional — thus striking down the federal statute defining marriage exclusively as the union of a man and Marriage Act was unconstitutional — thus striking down the federal statute defining marriage exclusively as the union of a man and marriage exclusively as the union of a man and a woman.

With that thought in mind and with encouragement from Harish - who has published more than a dozen books on Indian spirituality - I decided to try for an arranged marriage in India, where this system has operated with a high success rate for thousands of years and is still the dominant marriage system, as anyone who reads an Indian newspaper's matrimonial section is sure to discover.

This time has been a critical moment of transition and momentum for me: as I look to publish a book this year that God spoke to me about eight years ago, as the church we serve in begins to feel momentum and grace for a new season, as my wife and I close out our seventh year of marriage, and enter what I believe will be our most fruitful season yet.

Of course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go oOf course if anyone looks up, «No man knows my history» by Fawn M. Brodie, or «Under The Banner of Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go oof Heaven, or Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go oof Marriage and Beyond,» as well as google different questions about mormon secret names, White Horse Prophesy, Mormons becoming Gods, God was once a man on another planet, mormon bigotry against Blacks, Joseph Smith and his 14 year old wife (WHILE he was still married to his living wife Emma) Helen Mar Kimball... I could go on.

Jesus said that in the new world, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; having passed beyond death into resurrection, with no prospect of death, there will be no need for reproduction and hence we may assume no desire for it, just as now as a 64 - year old I no longer have a desire to play rugby though there was a time when I lived for it.

As for marriage, study after study has shown over the years that from the point of view of the child it is the best and most stable basis for the family.

And so, we bring you RELEVANT's top televised marriages of the past 50 years, one from each decade, and what it teaches us about having and holding, for as long as you both shall be syndicated.

Those of us who believe same - sex marriage to be a moral impossibility now face a very daunting challenge — how to live in a society that is moving so rapidly against our moral worldview, even as the society shared that worldview for over 2,000 years.

How is it possible that while the sitting president of the United States squarely opposed same - sex marriage just a few years ago, the liberal intellectuals who supported him passionately also condemn any opposition to same - sex marriage as bigotry, rooted in cultural backwardness?

Howard Clinebell writes not just as a clinical therapist observing middle - years marriages, but also as one who is experiencing these years of marriage himself: «This book reflects my own struggles and satisfactions in the mid-years.»

He has devoted nearly 20 years to strengthening the infrastructure of heterosexual marriage, and he fears that the rise of same - sex marriage will open a floodgate of aberrations, such as polygamy and group marriage, and will destroy the role that marriage has in bringing women and men together for the sake of having sex and rearing children.

Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.

The early years of marriage were described in Chapter I as «the second crisis of intimacy.»

As one 19 - year - old told me, «I don't need no marriage course to tell me the kind of person I like.»

The way God is working in that 17 - year - old who chose to serve instead of bully at school is just as miraculous as the way God is using your marriage to sharpen you.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

It's obviously about both (as the Church has argued for two thousand years, incidentally, teaching that the three ends of marriage are procreation, marital friendship, and mutual sanctification).

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Eleven years later, with same - sex marriage now the law of the land thanks to the Supreme Court, transgender bathroom use mandatory in schools thanks to the Obama administration, and the drafting of women a serious (and Republican - supported) proposition for Congress, it's hard not to view Schlafly's anti-ERA victory as somewhat Pyrrhic.

Another preacher preaching what ever goes is ok with Christianity... If your going to preach Christianity based on the Bible, then you might as well forget gay marriages are ok... If you want to twist it around then thats up to you... Paul said, «The Berens were of noble charachter because they didn't believe what they heard, but they took what they heard and confirmed it with the Bible... So its like the Yen or Yang... Its either Gods church or Satans Church... Can't be any other way... Do I hate gays, no... I have some very close friends that I have had for over 30 years that are gay, but I think they will be accountable for their life styles... Thats the thing about Christianity, we are held accountable, its not an everything goes belief... Its rules we have to follow... And rules we will be held accountable... So maybe this preacher needs to start a dfferent faith or religion... One where there are no rules and where its people are not accountable for their actions...

Or you can simply admit that you were wrong to criticize Christians who have worked to defend marriage — not just as Christians have known it for thousands of years, but as practically all societies have known it for thousands of years.

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.

(2) Will they celebrate my marriage of 37 years... after all, I am a male - to - female transsexual and still married to my wife... or will they politely insist I live as if «male»?

These included — how to deepen a marriage relationship neglected during frantic child - rearing, getting - ahead years; maintaining self - esteem in the midst of increasing evidence of aging; coping with stresses of «adolescing children»; dependency and death of parents; menopause; the emptying nest; wives» need to develop new satisfactions as children leave.

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.

The important fact is that while recent news reports of declining marriage rates among young people 25 to 34 have focused on the recession as an explanation, marriage rates over the past thirty years have been declining, through boom and bust alike, especially among less - educated Americans.

The full intimacy of the marriage relationship is one which grows deeper and richer as the years go by.

He condemns ho - mos - exuality even though it is a natural practice (feel free to disagree all you want, but that argument will go nowhere), and his idea of a good marriage is a 13 year old girl being given to a 40 year old man as payment for a land deal, with her bloody sheets being used as a receipt of a good deal, and if she isn't a vir - gin (she could have been ra - ped, or her hy - men could have burst while riding a horse or something) she is to be stoned to death on her parent's doorstep.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

As to the sexual revolution, fifty years later, Mark Regnerus's Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage and Monogamy provides a sobering account of how artificial contraception has upended sexual relations, with consequences correlated with poverty and loneliness.

continue to deepen their marriage through the years and will take the adjustment of the middle years as the opportunity to discover new facets of intimacy.

It's as if at the end of each lease - year — which we've necessarily adopted over the calendar year — our marriage experiences a materialistic purge.

Years before the nation's capital legalized same - sex marriage in March, one church in Washington, D.C., opened its doors to gay couples as part of its mission to establish an «inclusive body of Biblical believers.»

I spent the last three years of that marriage in question with God, many pastors, my family and my kids as to the ability to keep my vow of marriage.

The last several years have certainly been hard as I have experienced the loss of friends, marriage struggles, depression, financial trouble, and so on.

Where do you get that crystal ball of yours that tells you that in 50 years there will be just as many people opposed to gay marriage as there are now?