{"id":29465,"date":"2011-11-22T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jennifer_marshall-why_all_the_single_ladies_shouldnt_give_up_on_marriage\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:08:25","slug":"jennifer_marshall-why_all_the_single_ladies_shouldnt_give_up_on_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29465","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) Jennifer Marshall&#8211;Why &#39;All the Single Ladies&#39; Shouldn&#39;t Give Up on Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, if experience doesn&#8217;t match up to the ideal, toss out the ideal.<\/p>\n<p>But should we give up on an ideal just because it hasn&#8217;t worked out for us personally? That might make sense if marriage were an ideal simply because the majority, the powerful, or forces such as evolution or economics made it so. The unique status of marriage, however, is timeless. God ordained it as the basic institution for ordering human relations.<\/p>\n<p>To esteem that ideal is not to dismiss singleness as second rate. Kate Bolick&#8217;s hunch is right: Our current status isn&#8217;t &#8220;provisional.&#8221; We&#8217;ll gain a better perspective on our circumstances, though, not by downgrading marriage, but by taking a higher view of what God is doing both now and in the long run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/novemberweb-only\/single-ladies-marriage.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, if experience doesn&#8217;t match up to the ideal, toss out the ideal. But should we give up on an ideal just because it hasn&#8217;t worked out for us personally? That might make sense if marriage were an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29465\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,98,125,154,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}