Loving Your Spouse Too Much Can Ruin Your Marriage

by Jim Daly

Would it surprise you if I suggested that one of the greatest risks to your marriage is loving your spouse too much?

It’s true – but with a twist.

Number of Veterans Going to College Expected to Climb

If his door is open, you can bet student veterans are spilling out of Eric Glaude’s office at Borough of Manhattan Community College. On most days, it’s standing-room only because his broom closet of an office has become the de facto command central for student veterans.

Pictured: Vincent Acevedo, a Marine Corps veteran, takes a final exam for a Western Civilization class at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.

Once the Candidate of Hope, President Obama Stands to Become the Candidate of Fear in the 2012 Election

David Plouffe sits in his White House office, just a few steps from the Oval, staring at an oversize map of these United States. It’s late afternoon on May 9, two hours after Barack Obama’s declaration that his evolution on gay marriage has reached its terminus. The president is down the hall and on the phone, discussing his decision’s theological implications with several prominent African-American pastors–while Plouffe is being queried about its political dimensions by a querulous Caucasian reporter. The map at which Plouffe is gazing isn’t the electoral kind with the states shaded blue and red; as a federal employee, he notes wryly, “I’m not permitted to have one on the wall.” But given the way his head is hardwired, I’m pretty sure Plouffe is seeing those colors regardless.

As Baptist Veterans Age, Things Are Changing for the Southern Baptist Convention

From the beginning, the Trayvon Martin case exposed fault lines about race in America. One of those lines runs through the largest Protestant denomination in the country, and it has put one of its most visible leaders on the spot.

Street Preachers Win Right to Spread Gospel in Syracuse, New York

With a federal court’s intervention, street preachers have won the right to spread the gospel in Syracuse, New York.

Seattle Church Offers ‘Free Wedding Day’ to Cohabiting Couples

Marriage appears to be a dwindling institution in the United States. The number of marriages has dropped 54 percent since 1960.

Lawsuit to be Filed Against Illinois’ Homosexual Marriage Ban

More than two dozen gay and lesbian couples in Illinois plan to file lawsuits Wednesday arguing that it’s unconstitutional for the state to deny them the right to marry, a move advocates hope will lead to legalized same-sex marriage in Illinois.