Marriage
New Family Study Shows Importance of Married Parenting
It has long been established, since the deeply important 1966 Coleman Report on childhood education in America, that family form and parents’ levels of involvement in raising their children are paramount in boosting child well-being and…
Research Shows Marriage Changes People for the Better in Newlywed Years
Research has long shown that marriage adjusts men and women’s personalities for the better through marriage. But a groundbreaking longitudinal study published in the journal Developmental Psychology demonstrates how this happens in strong ways …
Good Marriages Begin in Childhood
Marriage rates have been declining for decades, a tragic development with far-reaching consequences that are becoming more and more apparent with each passing year. Not surprisingly, advocates for the sacred institution have been sounding the…
Best Age to Marry? Good Research Offers an Answer
Most everyone who marries intends to be married for life, for isn’t that what our marriage vows promise, to “have and to hold from this day forward, … till death do us part?” Thus, parents and young adults ask this question quite often: What is…
Is Polygamy Biblical? – The Stream
Part 1 of a 3-part series By Peter Demos Published on December 12, 2025 What does the Bible actually say about polygyny—and what doesn’t it say? In this 40-minute video, Peter Demos speaks with Pastor Rich Tidwell to examine his views on…
New Research Shows Marriage and Fatherhood Regulate Male Sexual Energy
Did you know that when men marry according to God’s design and become fathers, nature is aligned in such a way that it lowers their testosterone (T) levels in helpful ways? Men with lower T tend to be more focused on their duties toward marriage…
Erika Kirk to Women: Don’t use the government to put off marriage.
Young women shouldn’t rely on the government to put off getting married, Erika Kirk cautioned at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit this week. DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed Kirk in lieu of her late husband, Charlie, who had been…
Vatican Reaffirms: Marriage is Between One Man and One Woman
The Vatican has reaffirmed, in a new document published on November 25, the biblical truth that marriage is the unity of one man and one woman. The document, “‘Una Caro’ (One Flesh): In praise of monogamy. Doctrinal note on the value of marriage…
The Vatican Denounces Polygamy, But Also Flips Centuries of Magisterial Teaching On Marital Sex
A celibate cleric waxing lyrical about the pleasures of conjugal love may be compared to a congenitally dumb man who miraculously starts speaking Mandarin and Malayalam, both at the same time. Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, Rome’s doctrinal…
Rebekah Lyons Opens Up About Fighting for Her Marriage
By The Stream Published on November 27, 2025 In this 26-minute video, Bible Nerd Ministries host Faith Womack has a wonderful conversation with Rebekah Lyons on why she wrote “The Fight for Us.” Lyons shares what her husband Gabe and she had to…