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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let's try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he ...

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 ...

[EXTERNAL EMAIL] DO NOT CLICK links or attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow ...

Almost three decades ago, Richard Hays, a United Methodist minister and the soon-to-be dean of Duke Divinity School, wrote what quickly became the go-to traditionalist Christian argument against ...

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 ...

What Scripture stats reveal about evangelicals’ shifting rhetoric. The statistical patterns of these 30,000 votes reveal 60 Bible passages that commonly enter the discussion, falling into ten thematic ...