This is a placeholder essay so the site has something to show on day one. Replace its body with the real introduction, then add the rest of the series in essays.py.
Most of us were handed a quiet assumption about marriage: that it exists to make us happy, and that when it stops doing so, something has gone wrong. It is a small idea, and it cannot bear the weight a marriage actually carries.
This series begins somewhere else. It begins with the claim that marriage has a mission — that two people bound in covenant are meant for something larger than their own contentment, and that the home is the first place that mission is lived out.
What's coming
Over the essays ahead we'll take up covenant, headship and helpmeet, conflict and forgiveness, raising children, and the witness a faithful marriage bears to a watching world. Each piece stands on its own; together they make an argument.
Start here, then read in any order you like.