What the Bible Tells Us About Marriage

In thinking about our topic for Sunday, What Is Marriage For? (the eloquent phrasing of which comes from the title of E. J. Graff's helpful book), I find myself mired in stacks and stacks of pages written about marriage and what it means and to whom it belongs. I realize that I won't be able to cover everything I would like to about the history of marriage in our culture, the anthropological diversity of marriage world-wide, the politics of it all, or even its religious significance. With that in mind, I invite you to read this great take on what progressive religious leaders argue the Bible has to say about marriage by Lisa Miller that appeared in Newsweek Magazine in December of '08: Gay Marriage: Our Mutual Joy - Newsweek.com.