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Boot, I don't think your wife is incidental. Marriage is something someone chooses to do.

But family, involving children, is definitely incidental. Some families don't involved a marriage, and many marriages don't or can't have children.

Paul says "best": “To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am. Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭7:8, 26‬ ‭NET‬‬ I think "best" means "best". Paul makes it clear one who mar...

Interestingly enough, in my corner of moderate-conservative Mennonitism I run into more people talking about the Rosedale REACH than the Faith Builders REACH.

Ephesians 6 discusses parents and children on a level field with masters and slaves. I think that as believers, if we find that we are parents, or slaves, or masters, we have some advice in scripture of what to do. But being a really good master or a really good parent isn't the focus of following J...

Parenting / raising children is, in my view, in the "meat nor drink" category - it is incidental to living on earth, but it really has nothing to do with Christianity. Heathens raise their kids too (often quite well). I think the church goes down a dark road when it becomes focused on rais...

As a kingdom ambassador it seems Russia interfering in the US election is about the same as the US interfering in everyone else's affairs around the world - it is certainly ordained by God, not by men, if it did happen and it swung the election (both of which I highly doubt).

Not being divorced and remarried isn't the same thing as obeying God. It doesn't do much for worldly people to follow some of God's rules but fail to know him and believe in Jesus.

HK has summarised my own position well; I bet we've read some of the same thinkers on the topic. I like a teleological approach to this topic. A what? Looking for the telos (purpose) in various things, especially our humanity, to make decisions about what is moral and what is not. I happen to belie...

HK has summarised my own position well; I bet we've read some of the same thinkers on the topic. I like a teleological approach to this topic.

What did Jesus have to say about parenting and child rearing?