Alex Chediak

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What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense

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This should be an excellent and important book. It certainly couldn't be more timely. The official description (which itself is superbly written): Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partner­ship: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book's core argument quickly became the year's most widely read essay on … [Read more...] about What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense

Marriage and Income Inequality

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Glenn Stanton makes some interesting observations about marriage and income inequality: Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute makes important observations of how marital status is related to poverty in his important new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, 1960–2010. In 1960, the poorly and moderately educated were only 10 percent less likely to be married than the 94 percent of college-educated Americans who were married. The comparison between the two groups largely held until 1978. Today, these two groups are separated by a 35 percent margin. According … [Read more...] about Marriage and Income Inequality

Pornography and the Hotel Industry

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A leading Christian, Robert George, and a leading Muslim, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, sent hotel industry executives a letter last week: We write to ask you to stop offering pornographic movies in your company’s hotels. We make no proposal here to limit your legal freedom, nor do we threaten protests, boycotts, or anything of the sort. We simply ask you to do what is right as a matter of conscience. We are, respectively, a Christian and a Muslim, but we appeal to you not on the basis of truths revealed in our scriptures but on the basis of a commitment that should be shared by all people of reason … [Read more...] about Pornography and the Hotel Industry

Five Steps to Date Your Wife

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Justin Buzzard has some good advice for us men from his book Date Your Wife - on the Huffington Post blog of all places. Step 1: Call your wife right now and tell her you're taking her out to dinner tonight. Tell her you're making all the arrangements. Step 2: Make reservations, arrange babysitting if you have kids, and cancel any previous plans you had on the calendar for tonight. Step 3: Take your wife out to dinner and give her your full attention. Step 4: Say "sorry." Tell your wife you're sorry for ways you've neglected your marriage or failed to take care of and date … [Read more...] about Five Steps to Date Your Wife

Thinking Biblically About So-Called Same-Sex Marriage

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On Father's Day John Piper preached on the theme "Let Marriage Be Held in Honor." The eight points from Piper's sermon are below. Under the 7th point, Piper addressed the proposed Marriage Amendment, on the Minnesota ballot this November. [It's similar to the "Prop 8" that narrowly passed in CA in 2008.] 1. Marriage is created and defined by God in the Scriptures as the sexual and covenantal union of a man and a woman in life-long allegiance to each other alone, as husband and wife, with a view to displaying Christ’s covenant relationship to his blood-bought church. 2. There is no such … [Read more...] about Thinking Biblically About So-Called Same-Sex Marriage