I have studied the institution of marriage for all of my ministry life. Not until the recent Supreme Court Decisions (United States v. Windsor [2013] and Obergefell v. Hodges [2015]) have I needed to define the term and give its origins. We are in new and dangerous waters regarding marriage and the family, and our understandings have to become a bit more precise than ever before. We need to ask the question (and then answer it carefully), “What is marriage, really?” The tradi

In reading a book by Os Guinness, I came across a quote of an anonymous letter from the 2nd century A.D. Restating it might be helpful for us today as we attempt to regain what may be lost ground for the Church. "Christians are indistinguishable from other men either by nationality, language or customs. They do not inhabit separate cities of their own, or speak a strange dialect, or follow some outlandish way of life. Their teaching is not based upon reveries inspired by the