The bond between two people, faithfulness, separation, loneliness within a couple. The scale runs from -2, framed as a danger, to +2, celebrated as a gift. It means the same for every area. What is measured is what a text does, not whether it is right.
| Tradition | Framing | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Sunni | +0.8 ± 0.3 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 20 of 284 texts |
| Orthodox (Christianity) | +0.9 ± 0.3 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 9 of 234 texts |
| Free church | +0.8 ± 0.3 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 6 of 114 texts |
| Catholic | +1.8 ± 0.2 as a gift or calling that is explicitly celebrated | 4 of 139 texts |
| Zen | +0.3 ± 0.7 descriptively or weighing up, without a clear direction | 3 of 48 texts |
| Judaism | +1.3 ± 0.3 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 3 of 53 texts |
| Protestant | +1.3 ± 0.3 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | 3 of 133 texts |
| Humanist | +1.5 ± 0.5 as a gift or calling that is explicitly celebrated | 2 of 112 texts |
| Queer community | +2.0 as a gift or calling that is explicitly celebrated | one mention |
| Hinduism | +1.0 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | one mention |
| Theravada | +1.0 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | one mention |
| Reform | +1.0 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | one mention |
| Baha'i | +1.0 as something good that should be nurtured and strengthened | one mention |
A figure like "+1" is ambiguous. An address about possessions held in trust and a prosperity gospel both land there, for opposite reasons. Here are the sentences the figures came from, set alternately by tradition.
In particular, tearing other people's families apart out of greed and desire brings a very difficult situation for the wrongdoer.
The joy of love that families experience is also the joy of the Church
When couples have just gotten married, they are constantly on the phone with each other at work. A few months later, they talk to each other every few hours. A few months later, they call each other once a day. Sometimes they stop calling each other altogether! Does that mean their love has disappeared? No, because the initial passionate love has transformed and turned into
that in Christian marriage not only two people are united. On their shared path, a third party is to be present: Christ.
He emphasized that the value of a marriage or an individual should not be determined by the ability to have children, and he urged the church to create safe spaces in which couples can receive prayer, pastoral support, encouragement, and appropriate medical counseling without stigma.
The only way to save the world is to start with ourselves. Our task after the terrorist attacks is to renew the moral foundations of freedom.
Genuine love implies genuine care for the well-being of others. It demands that we strive to be honest. It is not that we always know what is right and must impose it on others; it is that ignoring what is wrong is ignoring the responsibility of love.
Hope begins with people like you. If you donate today, you ensure that LGBTQ+ people across the United Kingdom feel seen, safe, and valued every single day.
The thought that something is unchanging is simply a thought; it is a cause of the arising of suffering. We take the impermanent to be permanent.
I have always believed that to be true. But I thought it referred to the one who has passed on. I could not understand how it applied to the one who was left behind. Now I understand.
After we have caused harm to someone we love, it is our obligation to acknowledge the other person, even if it is not within our power to make things fully right again.
The duty to which one was born must not be abandoned, O Arjuna, even if it is flawed. For everything one does is shrouded in evil, just as fire is shrouded in smoke.
However, when we let go of our attachments, it seems as though we are losing our identity, which is why we are overwhelmed by even more intense suffering. At the same time, it becomes more difficult to maintain our own physical form.
Hope is not a linear process but knows highs and lows and grows precisely in distress, indeed proves itself in trial, because the love of God in our hearts only then truly dawns, as Paulus writes in the Letter to the Romans.
However, the wife has a claim to her own private space, into which no one barges in and disturbs her.
The challenge is to love, even when it is hard to love. It is also worth remembering that love is meant to be unconditional; it is not an exchange but an offer made without expectation of reciprocity.
If the church does not speak thoughtfully about difficult questions, Christians do not stop encountering them. They simply look for answers elsewhere.
That is precisely what is special about the mitzvah of the husband. He is not to think about what he receives from his wife, but exclusively about what he can give her to make her happy.
The connection between God's creative act and the life of the human being, who here has become word, is far too grand, far too primordial, too fundamental, for us to expect petty answers to questions of bourgeois morality in the twenty-first century within it.
I do believe that there is someone who holds us up and keeps us there and who is present and who never abandons us
It is impermissible to pronounce Talaaq on a woman in the state of Nifaas (postpartum bleeding), just as it is impermissible to pronounce Talaaq on a woman in the state of Haidh (menstrual bleeding).
Love requires action, and Nehemiah does not content himself with merely assessing a problem, but also calls the people to act. "Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, so that we no longer have to endure shame."
Forgiveness is the personal act of releasing the person who has sinned against me from my personal right to collect the moral debt or to make them pay back for the deed.
Perhaps that is the deepest message of Tu beAv: after war, peace can follow; after destruction, reconstruction; after grief, hope.
Sexuality · Family and children · Gender and roles · Work and performance · Money and possessions · Poverty and care · State and politics · Law and punishment · Violence and war · Migration and strangers · Other religions · Illness and death · Environment and animals · Education and science · Pleasure and consumption