This week, my friends at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission have posted an excerpt from the chapter where I lay out various myths about marriage in This Is Our Time.
Is a wedding the mountaintop of a romantic relationship? Or is it the base of the mountain, the foundation for all that follows?
In our time, many people see the wedding as the capstone, or the summit. You start out at the bottom of the mountain when you meet someone with similar interests, and then you decide to climb together. Perhaps you live together for a while, to give your relationship a more serious try. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you and your partner arrive at the summit—the wedding day.
Marriage as the mountaintop. That’s why almost every romantic comedy ends with the wedding—the celebration of a relationship that has endured all the trials of dating and romance (that you can fit into two hours!) and has now achieved success.
The Bible flips this picture upside down.
[Read the whole article here.]
