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May 22, 2025
Mercy conference celebrates truth
The “Mercy: Love Throughout Life” conference was held in Irvine, Calif.; St. Louis; and online.
June 24, 2024
A Chaste and Decent Life
Christians must reclaim chastity as the vital, strong and beautiful virtue that it is: a standard and goal that should inspire, encourage and ultimately define all those who follow Christ.
June 19, 2024
Sacrificial, Unconditional, Incarnational: A Biblical View of Marriage
Married couples get to live out the sacrificial, unconditional and incarnational love of Jesus.
June 17, 2024
What God Has Joined Together
An unhappy, unfulfilling or difficult marriage does not call for a divorce, but for redoubled effort to craft a marriage that honors God.
June 7, 2024
Christ and the Church: Ephesians 5 and the Wonder of the Wedding Day
God made us so that we would delight in Him and husband and wife would delight in each other.
May 3, 2024
God’s design for sexuality: Starting the conversation
In 2019 and 2023, the LCMS convention passed resolutions calling on the church to “address sexual orientation and gender identity issues” through intentional conversations.
April 26, 2024
Marriage and the Gift of Dying to Self
Marriage is not a curse to avoid or put off for a better time. It is a gift that creates a husband and wife and a blessed family.
April 19, 2024
On ‘Anna Karenina’: A prescient critique of sexual disorder
Although he wrote long before the Sexual Revolution, Tolstoy anticipates the tragic effects of such an ethic on human life.
April 4, 2024
Starting the conversation: April ‘Lutheran Witness’
The April issue of The Lutheran Witness takes up the topic of chaste community.
August 29, 2023
Reclaiming the Marriage Bed
God has created the marriage bed for procreation and to create intimacy and affection between husband and wife.
April 28, 2023
‘A Chaste and Decent Life’: CTCR updates 1981 report
The update is a direct response to resolutions adopted by the Synod in convention in 2016 and 2019.
December 14, 2022
Respect for Marriage Act: Misnamed law threatens religious liberty
On Dec. 13, President Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law.
April 4, 2022
Changing the Narrative: Good Moms Can Be Good Wives, Too
Like workaholic dads, stay-at-home moms can feel torn between the claims of two roles. We are wives but also mothers, and sometimes …
January 13, 2022
The Joy of Subordination in Christ
Subordination need not be a burden; the Christian joyfully submits to Christ who provides for the good of those submitting to Him.