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💔 Getting Through the Mandatory Divorce Parenting Class If you’re looking for Christian divorce support, you’re not alone. Many believers facing an abusive or high-conflict marriage are required to take court-ordered classes they find confusing or shaming. This post...
Hope Restored Marriage Intensive: Real Results From 44 Former Attendees As a Christian divorce recovery leader, I am asked frequently about marriage intensives. So I did a survey of 330 past participants of multi-day Christian marriage intensives or marriage retreats....
When “Restoring Hope” Meant Losing Safety: Patricia’s Story and the Hidden Cost of Christian Marriage Therapy Patricia went to Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored marriage intensive looking for help. Instead, what the program calls ‘restoring hope’ sent her back into...
🧩 Introduction In 2011, Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored marriage intensive—then known as the National Institute of Marriage (NIM)—published a paper it claimed proved the program’s success. More than a decade later, those same numbers are still being used in their...
💔 When Hope Restored Stops the Process: Why You Can’t Choose Divorce at Focus on the Family’s Marriage Intensive If you’re reading this, you might be in a marriage that feels unbearable. Maybe you’ve prayed, waited, forgiven, and tried everything. Maybe your pastor or...
Catholic Annulment: 21 Recognized Grounds Based on the 1983 Code of Canon Law and official Catholic sources [button link="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x3z89ew3pep54ya5fnoyp/Catholic-Annulment-21-Reasons-Grounds.pdf?rlkey=p6q2s5pqfcklqrbys1en97t5g&dl=0"...
Book Review: Restoring Hope by Robert S. Paul, Robert K. Burbee, and Christine A. Arnzen Video version here: Book Review: Restoring Hope by Robert S. Paul, Robert K. Burbee, and Christine A. Arnzen Restoring Hope: An Integrative Approach to Marital Therapy is not...
Will Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored Marriage Intensive Fix My Desperate Marriage? A closer look at Focus on the Family’s marriage-intensive program and the dangers of pressuring people to stay in destructive marriages as a way of proving their faith. This review...
MYTH: God forbids all divorce, or all divorce is sin unless it's for adultery. TRUTH: Scripture shows that God gives permission for divorce in many situations, including sexual immorality, abuse, and abandonment or neglect. (See verses below.) In my interviews with...