Marriage

preparing our children for marriage

Julie / September 3, 2010

It occurred to me that since my last entry was more or less from the perspective of “my” generation, that it might come across as critical of my parents‘ generation, which wasn’t what I meant at all.  This cultural shift away from “responsible twentysomethings” and early marriage doesn’t seem to me like it’s going anywhere anytime soon, and it’s been…

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Marriage

Money for (Young) Marriage

Julie / August 30, 2010

The New York Times Magazine article “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” has been popping up all over the place since it was published, and I’ve been thinking very deeply about the points it makes in reference to another widely-quoted article that was published in Christianity Today a full year prior–“The Case for Early Marriage.”  Both are very important articles about…

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Marriage

Early Marriage and Maturity

Julie / August 12, 2010

Something that has been much on my mind lately–and much on the blogosphere for the past year or so–is early marriage. Seth and I got married when I was twenty.  Most of the rest of the kids I went to church with that were my age got married years after I did.  At the time I thought it was more…

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