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What the Courthouse Cannot Do: Civil Divorce and the Covenant That Remains

The state can divide property, assign custody, and change a legal status. What it cannot do is dissolve what God joined. The Supreme Court recognized this distinction in 1885. Most Christians have forgotten it entirely. This article examines the gap between civil law and covenant reality, and what that gap means for every woman who believes a divorce decree ended her marriage before God.

Glenn Braunstein | Divorce & Remarriage | Long Read

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Biblical Law

Romans 7 Was Not Written for Widows: Paul's Audience and What He Was Actually Saying

The passage is quoted as a comfort. It was written as a constraint. Understanding who Paul was addressing changes everything about how the text reads.

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Adultery & Ethics

The Man She Married After: Why Both Parties Stand Guilty

Jesus addressed the man who marries a divorced woman with the same directness he used with the woman herself. This is not a popular observation. It is a textual one.

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Marriage & Covenant

Blood, Seal, and Oath: Understanding the Ancient Marriage Covenant

Modern people enter marriage as a contract. The biblical text describes something categorically different — a blood covenant with terms, witnesses, and binding obligations.

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Divorce & Remarriage

Maynard v. Hill: What the Supreme Court Said About Marriage That the Church Forgot

In 1885, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that marriage is not a contract subject to ordinary dissolution by the state. The church should have been saying the same thing all along.

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Biblical Law

Filtering the Text: Why Reading Scripture Through Tradition Is Not Reading Scripture

Filtering biblical text through modern Christian tradition that arose centuries after the New Testament era cannot honestly be considered when interpreting the passages in context. Here is what that principle demands in practice.

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Culture & Analysis

The American Divorce Crisis and the Church That Blessed It

No-fault divorce entered American law in 1969. The church had fifty years to respond with clarity. It chose comfort instead. This is a record of that choice and its consequences.

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Marriage & Covenant

The Covering: What Numbers 30 Teaches About Covenantal Authority

A woman's vows could be nullified by her father or her husband. That is not a footnote. It is a window into the structure of covenantal authority that runs through the entire biblical text.

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Adultery & Ethics

1 Corinthians 6:9 — What Adultery Costs and Why the Church Stopped Saying It

Paul placed adulterers alongside thieves, idolaters, and those who will not inherit the kingdom. The church has spent decades explaining why he did not mean what he said. He meant what he said.

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Biblical Law

What Porneia Actually Means: A Return to the Torah Definition

The Greek word has been stretched and compressed to cover almost any sexual situation the church wishes to address. What the apostles meant by it was something more precise — and more demanding.

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