For many, marriage is a major milestone in their faith. Most people begin dreaming about getting married, but not everyone's idea of what the perfect marriage will be like is the same. Some women want ...

Is it wrong to have sex before marriage? It's a common question asked by Christians once they have fallen in love or finally are engaged. If you're engaged to be married, it might seem natural to ...

In a matter of days, more than 40,000 readers responded to our Dec. 15 cover story, "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage." The vast majority stemmed from a letter-writing campaign encouraged by the ...

I first met Mark Achtemeier in one of the committee rooms at a Presby­terian Church (U.S.A.) General As­sembly in the mid-1990s. We were on opposite sides of a perennial issue for Presbyterians: ...

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Much of the debate over same sex marriage centers on one's belief of whether homosexuality is a sin. If homosexuality is a sin, and marriage is ordained by God to be between a man and a woman, then ...

Connie Schultz explicitly affirms that feelings trump morality in her Feb. 15 column regarding gay marriage and her support of the protest by Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ. Schultz ...

Around the world gay marriage is becoming more accepted, with a number of governments introducing legislation overriding thousands of years of prejudice against same-sex unions. But within the ...