“Marriage is an all-encompassing sharing of life,” said Dr. Robert George, Princeton and Harvard grad, speaking at today’s DOXOLOGY conference in Mundelein, Ill. “Like other bonds—friendship, relationships between siblings, parents and children—marriage involves a union of hearts and minds. But in the case of marriage, it’s all-encompassingness refers to its distinctive feature, that is, in addition to being a union of hearts and minds, it’s … Continue reading George’s case for marriage: permanence, monogamy, fidelity

{Caveat: As this sectional was (a) awesome, and (b) way over my head, I present the following, which was as much as I could get down and still understand. Please see Dr. Hal Senkbeil or Dr. Bev Yahnke for more info on the lecture.}   “In addition to being biological and rational, we are moral agents. We can flourish or decline with regard to our … Continue reading Robert George: We think that being human gives us our dignity, but what gives us our dignity is being made in the image of God.

“The instant we resign is the time we move into the bleacher seats of our culture and we simply watch the world unfold before us. We watch the Christian concepts of marriage and morality be vandalized at every turn,” Dr. Beverly Yahnke, executive director for Christian Counsel for DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care Counsel and professor of Psychology /Chair of Social Sciences, Concordia University … Continue reading Yahnke: We are pro-marriage, pro-family, pro-mom, pro-dad until death do us part