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If Governments Won’t End No-Fault Divorce, Churches Should Help

Anyone confused about what God says about marriage and divorce can find clarity — and robust scriptural receipts — in this book.

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Everyone living in the West is deeply affected by chronic sexual chaos. It is one of the prime enemies of the American way of life, because citizens who do not grow up with their lifetime-married biological parents are usually less capable of self-government. So are most men and women who do not marry, as marriage naturally and highly develops the self-sacrificial habits required for self-government.

The sexual revolution destroying Western societies requires two cornerstone behaviors: nonmarital sex and no-fault divorce. Sex outside of marriage and smashing marriages also swap dependence on taxpayers for private independence within extended families. Conversely, big government reduces the natural consequences of destroying one’s family, by forcing stable families to subsidize self-destructing families through welfare that displaces every personal responsibility under the sun. This is why, as I’ve argued extensively, feminism is an existential crisis for the West.

Those left with the horrifying consequences of this — which is all of us — have little current recourse through our governments, which celebrate and subsidize the sexual revolution. Republicans won’t even promptly defund the nation’s largest child mutilation and murder chain, let alone talk about the gross injustice of no-fault divorce. So what recourse can we have through our families and churches, the other two of the three core social institutions?

A biblically orthodox Protestant theologian tackles this question and many more in a thorough book coming out July 16, Divorce and Remarriage: Ecclesiastical Discernment and Pastoral Care. The Rev. Dr. Benjamin Mayes, a Lutheran seminary professor, gives refreshingly clear guidance directly from scripture and informed by the church fathers about how churches and families should handle the relationship mayhem humans often make for ourselves.

Churches Ignore God’s Clear Commands

Mayes spends the first half of this book developing and demonstrating what the Bible commands with regard to divorce and remarriage. This is........

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