Get the most recent headlines and stories from Christianity Today delivered to your inbox daily.
Marriage is an institution ordained by God, and a basic building block of decent societies. Uniting man and woman in permanent bonds of love, marriage models the relationship between Christ and his bride, the Church, while furnishing a stable environment for the rearing of children. Liberalized patterns of pre-marital sex and cohabitation, the relaxing of restrictions on divorce, and growing pressures for the legal recognition of same-sex partnerships have drastically altered both the conception and lived reality of marriage over the past several decades. Even among many Christians, an essentially contractual view of marriage now prevails over a more covenantal understanding of the institution.
Clarity comes from God in the midst of Joseph’s anxious wrestling.
Being Human
Two friends speak on holding fast to God and friendships when life is in free fall.
News
Accountability group says Vince Bantu, an expert in ancient African Christianity, is justifying adultery with an argument for polygamy. Bantu denies their claims.
News
Christian counselors wish more people would acknowledge their rage in a boiling cultural moment.
For all their faults, our marriage rituals present family and promise-keeping as beautiful, desirable, and worth the effort.
Evangelicals tend to assume our sexual ethic is deeply unpopular. But the wind may be shifting as thought leaders increasingly declare Christianity a cultural asset.
From embracing Western styles to preserving cultural heritage, how female leaders in six states navigate competing perspectives on appropriate attire.
Church leaders and human rights experts weigh in on whether raising the legal age is sufficient in shielding minors.
Testimony
A lifestyle of violence and addiction nearly destroyed me, but it brought me to the foot of the cross.