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Pastors and Christian Divorcees: What the LifeWay Surveys Reveal About the Church Divorce Gap In 2015, Focus on the Family sponsored LifeWay Research to conduct multiple surveys on divorce in the church—including two parallel surveys: 1,000 Protestant pastors 1,000...
Pastors: Think Twice Before Using Focus on the Family’s Marriage Ministry Materials I am pro-marriage. I have spent years defending covenant faithfulness, calling out serial infidelity, chronic abuse, deception, addiction, and exploitation. I believe in strong...
The LifeWay Divorce Study: What the Data Reveals — And What Focus on the Family Hasn’t Addressed In 2015, LifeWay Research conducted a national survey of 1,000 churchgoers who had divorced within the previous five years. The study was sponsored by Focus on the Family...
How Christian Marriage Advice Goes Wrong in Destructive Marriages Why “Change Your Tone” Can Shift Responsibility Off the Offender In healthy marriages, advice about attitude and communication can strengthen love—but in destructive marriages, the same advice can...
What Is Gray Rock? A Strategy for Handling a Destructive Person When cutting off contact is not possible, Gray Rock can be a practical way to protect your peace while keeping necessary communication brief, calm, and boring. If you share minor children with a...
Unconditional Love in Marriage: What It Is — and What It Is Not Unconditional love is one of the most beautiful truths in Christianity. It is also one of the most misunderstood. Many sincere believers have been taught that loving “like Jesus” means staying no matter...
Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife: Resisting Sexual Harassment and Assault (Genesis 39) Update: I’ve written a shorter, search-friendly version of this article here: Is It Sexual Harassment If the Victim Didn’t Fight or Run? Recently I saw a tweet about the biblical story of...
When “Leave and Cleave” Becomes Spiritual Isolation Genesis 2:24 says a man shall “leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife.” Beautiful. Sacred. Good. But in some church spaces today, “leave and cleave” has been repackaged into something far more...
When Church Communities Enable Elder Undue Influence Warning Signs of Elder Financial Abuse, Dementia Denial, and Isolation from Family Sometimes elder abuse doesn’t look like bruises or obvious fraud. Sometimes it looks like a vulnerable parent being encouraged to...