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We equip people everywhere to defend the societal unit that makes civilization possible: the family.

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Your spouse was never meant to carry the weight of being your savior. When we expect another person to be God, disappointment is inevitable. No husband or wife can fulfill every longing of the human heart.

Strong marriages are built when spouses love each other deeply while recognizing that only God can complete them, and only God can satisfy their deepest desires.

Marriage is a gift, but it was never meant to replace the Giver.

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Every person has a story about a man who made a difference.

Maybe it was your dad. Maybe it was your grandfather, godfather, coach, teacher, mentor, priest, husband, brother, uncle, or son.

Who is a man who positively impacted your life, and how did he do it? We’d love to hear your story in the comments.

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Pride is temporary. Family is timeless.

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It’s officially Nuclear Family Month!

“Tennessee has officially designated June as ‘Nuclear Family Month’ under a resolution signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee on April 9.

The measure, House Joint Resolution 182, was approved by the Tennessee General Assembly and defines a nuclear family as one husband, one wife, and their children, including biological, adopted, or fostered children.

The resolution describes that family structure as foundational to society and includes statements linking fatherless households to higher rates of poverty, substance abuse, mental health challenges, and incarceration.

It also references research on family structure among school shooters.

Additionally, the measure criticizes international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations, stating their positions on issues like population control and reproductive health conflict with what it describes as Tennessee’s values. . .”

https://t.co/eNkF4ovXav

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The most effective anti-poverty, crime-prevention, and child-development program ever created wasn't designed by government. It was (and still is) fatherhood.

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Data from the General Social Survey shows a U-curve in marital happiness—the most liberal & most conservative wives are the happiest. It's the ideological middle that struggles most. What gives?

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“By the time a woman finds her way to a fertility clinic, the most consequential decisions about her timeline have already been made.”

Eye opening article about IVF business booming due to ONGYNs not doing their job.

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The 33-year-old patient who comes to me in tears is the one the gynecologist never properly educated because the insurance codes wouldn’t pay for it, writes Brian A. Levine. https://t.co/mn4jYBXmJL

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Now we’re dating ai… 👀

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

"New research. . . has found that 1 in 7 young adults in committed relationships — “seriously dating, engaged, or married” — regularly interact with romantic artificial intelligence companions." @freyaindiaa @wapo @FamStudies @BYUWheatley

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@CarrieGress gets to the heart of a question many people would rather avoid: Can modern feminism and the pro-life movement truly coexist?

At their core, they rest on competing views of women, motherhood, and human flourishing. The pro-life movement sees pregnancy and motherhood as realities worthy of protection and support. Modern feminism treats them as obstacles to women's freedom, equality, and self-determination.

One worldview asks society to accommodate the realities of motherhood. The other asks women to accommodate themselves to a society that functions as if motherhood were optional.

That is why abortion became so central to the feminist project. If equality means living exactly like men, then pregnancy will always be viewed as a problem to solve rather than a gift to protect.

Women deserve more than a vision of freedom that depends on separating them from their own fertility, their children, and their unique capacities as women.

Read Carrie's new article here:
https://t.co/tRmRo1Lirq

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Marriage is for your holiness, not happiness.

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No, we don’t simply “get over” trauma. No, we don’t just “forgive and forget.”

But we can learn to thrive in spite of it. We can learn how to survive it. We can learn how to carry it. We can learn how to live with it and not in it.

Healing doesn’t mean erasing the past. It doesn’t mean pretending something didn’t happen or forcing ourselves to be “okay” before we truly are. Healing means learning how to move forward without allowing our wounds to become our identity.

For me, healing has often looked less like a sudden breakthrough and more like small acts of courage. Maybe it’s getting out of bed on hard days, choosing hope when bitterness feels easier, trusting God one moment at a time, or allowing myself to laugh again.

Trauma changes us, but joy and sorrow can coexist. We don’t have to feel imprisoned forever.

This week, I want to challenge you to take one small step toward healing:
Call a trusted friend.
Spend ten quiet minutes in prayer.
Go for a walk.
Write down three things you’re grateful for.
Or simply remind yourself: “My story is bigger than what happened to me.”

Healing is rarely linear, and it rarely happens overnight. But healing is possible.

You do not have to live inside your trauma forever. You can learn to thrive in spite of it.

#FridaysWithFaith #HealingJourney #TraumaRecovery #HopeAndHealing #FaithInTheStorm #SurvivorStrong #HealingIsPossible #ThrivingAfterTrauma #RuthInstitute

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"But, of course, ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense—love as distinct from ‘being in love’—is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be ‘in love’ with someone else."

—C.S. Lewis

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PART 2 is here! As America approaches Nuclear Family Month and the anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, many assume support for marriage between a man and a woman is purely a religious position.

It isn't.

There are compelling non-religious reasons to support marriage as the union of a man and woman. Part 2 examines what happens when marriage is redefined in law and culture.

The debate was never only about adult relationships. It was also about parenthood, fatherhood, children's connection to their biological parents, reproductive technology, and the growing role of the state in family life.

Read it here: https://t.co/WW7CX6NqDq

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One of the biggest misconceptions about the marriage debate was that it was only about adult relationships. @DrJrobackmorse warned from the beginning that redefining marriage would inevitably redefine parenthood, family law, and the rights of children.

For years, we were told these concerns were irrational, hateful, or impossible. Yet many of the legal and cultural consequences Dr. Morse warned about are now openly debated realities.

Redefining marriage was never going to stop at marriage.

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

Here's what @DrJrobackmorse predicted would result from legalizing #GayMarriage

•Legal recognition of three or more parents in custody disputes
•The erosion of religious liberty protections
•The removal of gendered language from laws and institutions
•The elimination of sex distinctions in legal frameworks
•Increased government involvement in family life
•The weakening of the natural parent-child relationship

The woman doesn't miss.