A return to a functional marriage process will probably involve the Christian Church, because there really isn’t any alternative to Christian Courtship as it existed during the time when Jane Austen was writing books. This is basically the same as all successful civilizations, including India and China.
Unfortunately, the Church isn’t helping much these days. Since I am not that involved in a Christian Church, I don’t see what’s going on. This item at Sigma Frame was such a concise and relevant takedown that I’m putting it here, as a way of planting the flag for the beginning of 2026.
Meanwhile, we have Lori Alexander over at The Transformed Wife, who is very rigorously and consistently showing how the Church should be doing things.
On Churchianity
The church in America has failed its youth in every way imaginable. Everything is the fault of men. They don’t encourage young family formation. They don’t speak out against the cost of housing. They don’t speak out about the lack of job opportunities for youth. The only message the church offers — whether Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Presbyterian, or whatever — is, “Young women should go to college and find careers before they get married, and young men can go f_ck themselves with their bare fists. But magically, they should abstain from sex for a whole decade, and the man should forgive the woman if she is a ran through whore when she decides to settle for him and marry at the post-fertile age of 35. Oh, and if men use p0rn in the meantime, they are evil.”
How inspiring. Give me a break from this crass, fake religiosity. I’m done.
Cornerstone 