The Meaning of Our Wedding Vows
Glenn Braunstein
Marriage & Covenant
The Meaning of Our Wedding Vows
The vows spoken on a wedding day are among the most significant words a person will ever say. They promise stability, love, and companionship for the rest of a life. Most people say them without fully understanding what they are promising — and most marriages are weaker for it.
This book works through each phrase in the traditional wedding vows, not as poetry and not as ceremony, but as binding covenant language that carries real meaning and real weight. What exactly does each phrase commit a person to? What does it require of them when the relationship gets hard? What does it look like to actually maintain what was promised at the altar?
When the vows are understood rather than simply spoken, they become the foundation they were always meant to be — producing genuine love, affection, romance, mutual respect, and a marriage built to last. This book gives couples, engaged partners, and anyone considering vow renewal the understanding most people are never given before they say the words.
An excellent engagement, wedding, vow renewal, and anniversary gift.
The Biblical Case for Polygamy
The Biblical Texts
Glenn Braunstein
Biblical Law & Interpretation
The Biblical Case for Polygamy
The Biblical Texts
For generations, Christians have been taught that monogamy is the only biblical model for marriage. That belief is usually presented as settled fact. When the text itself is examined closely, the case is not as simple as most people have been led to believe.
This book takes readers into one of the most controversial and least honestly examined subjects in biblical discussion. Focusing specifically on polygyny — one man with multiple wives — it asks whether Scripture actually condemns the practice or whether centuries of church tradition have been speaking more loudly than the Bible itself.
Inside this book you will examine the historical and cultural world in which the Bible was written, the marriages of Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, and over thirty other biblical figures, and the Mosaic laws that regulate households involving more than one wife. The book draws a careful distinction between what Scripture records, permits, regulates, and actually forbids — and works through the standard arguments used against polygyny in modern Christian teaching, including the New Testament passages most commonly cited.
This is not a defense of lust. It is a serious challenge to a deeply protected assumption. The central question it places before the reader is one most people have never been asked to face honestly: has the church condemned something the Bible itself never clearly condemns?
Wrestling with Nature
Understanding Why Men Cheat on the Women They Love
Glenn Braunstein
Relationships & Human Nature
Wrestling with Nature
Understanding Why Men Cheat on the Women They Love
If you think cheating means he did not love you, this book will change how you understand what happened.
Most people are taught that infidelity is simple. If he cheated, he must not have loved her. If he loved her, he would not have cheated. When real life does not fit that formula — when a man cheats in a relationship that genuinely mattered to both people — the confusion that follows is deep and hard to move past. Women are left trying to make sense of behavior that contradicts what they were living. Men are left unable to explain themselves honestly, even when they want to.
This book was written to answer one question clearly: why does this happen at all, even when the love was real? There is no therapy language, no political framing, and no moral theater. Instead, it looks directly at how male biology, attachment patterns, opportunity, impulse control, and modern relationship dynamics actually operate — and explains them in plain language that does not water down the subject.
One of the questions at the center of the book is one most people avoid: if the infidelity had never happened, would you still want to end the relationship? If the answer is no, then understanding what was actually happening becomes essential. Without it, attempts at repair tend to fail — not because recovery is impossible, but because both people stay trapped in the shock of betrayal rather than addressing the conditions that made it possible.
Written for women who want clarity instead of confusion, and for men willing to understand themselves honestly.
The Prophecy
A Dystopian Novel
Glenn Braunstein
Fiction — Dystopian Novel
The Prophecy
A Dystopian Novel Based on Isaiah 3
What happens when order collapses, truth is mocked, and the people meant to protect a nation step back?
The Prophecy follows the slow unraveling of a society that believed it could defy reality without consequence. What begins as cultural decay becomes something far worse. Authority breaks down. Fear moves in. The strong prey on the weak. And the people who once dismissed the warning signs find themselves trapped inside them.
This is not a story built on cheap fantasy or distant science fiction. It feels close enough to touch. Streets grow unsafe. Institutions hollow out. Relationships fracture under pressure they were never built to carry. Survival begins to depend not on slogans or systems, but on strength, discernment, sacrifice, and the willingness to face hard truth when it is no longer comfortable to look away.
At the center of the story are men and women forced to navigate a world where protection is scarce, leadership is tested, and the cost of disorder has become impossible to ignore. As the crisis deepens, the novel asks a question Isaiah raised long before any of us were alive: what happens to a people when they reject the very structure that once held civilization together?
Dark, tense, and unsettlingly close to recognizable — a novel about collapse, judgment, human nature, and the brutal difference between power and authority.
Under Adultery's Shadow
Betrayed Vows and Invalid Secular Divorce
Glenn Braunstein
Marriage & Covenant
Coming Soon
Under Adultery's Shadow
Betrayed Vows and Invalid Secular Divorce
Jesus of Nazareth said what he said. He was not speaking in hyperbole, issuing a pastoral suggestion, or establishing a principle to be softened by later tradition. When he described a woman who divorces her husband and remarries as living in adultery — and when he extended that judgment to the man who marries her — he meant it in the plainest possible sense.
This book works through those words in full. It examines the covenant that marriage creates, why civil divorce lacks the authority to dissolve it, what the state of adultery means before God, and what options remain for the person living inside it. The full testimony of Scripture on divorce and remarriage runs from the words of Jesus in Mark and Luke, through Paul in Romans and 1 Corinthians, through the ancient covenant structure that no civil court has the standing to reach.
This is not a comfortable book. It was not written to be comfortable. It was written to be accurate.