What is Marriage?

The best summary (and most unemotional argument I’ve ever seen posted on the internet) of the different definitions of marriage debated within the US today is made in the paper “What Is Marriage” published in the Winter 2011 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.  I highly recommend reading the entire paper, but this post…

Ya know, polygamy seems pretty ‘biblical.’

Question from a reader: Marriage between one man and many women is very prevalent in the Bible, but these days “Biblical Marriage” is virtually always represented as between one man and one woman. I haven’t gone looking for any research to support this, but I suspect that a comparison of parenting outcomes from polygamist households…

“But, Jesus Never Mentioned Homosexuality!”

Jesus did not use the term “conservation” but that doesn’t mean that as Christians we have no responsibility to care for the planet.  He didn’t talk about anorexia but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t care for our bodies.  He doesn’t mention human trafficking but that doesn’t excuse us of responsibility to those sold into…