The greatly exaggerated demise of an American institution

And what the church has to do with it

... Charlie Brown, Tony Soprano, and other unlikely spiritual guides

Desperate housewives

Why don't Christians live what they preach?

A conversation with Christian Smith

Lessons learned in the church of U2.

An introduction to the special section on marriage.

It's not just couple-centered.

Marriage isn't as important as we're led to believe.

Is marriage the only happy ending we can imagine for our stories?

God-given longings in a broken world.

Pope John Paul II on the biblical foundations of marriage and sexuality.

A conversation with Brad Wilcox.

The meaning of marital covenants in bleak seasons.

The pitfalls of Great Expectations.

The debate over faith-based social services.

Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?

The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.

Confession without remorse.