It isn’t hard to know why some want to idealize the family, while everywhere, there are others who want to undervalue and belittle it.
The church has been perhaps the most obvious warrior on behalf of the family in the past century. But there’s been an unfortunate side-effect to how church leaders and theologians have presented the church’s teachings about the family in recent decades: the tendency has been to stress the similarity between the family and the church, even to the point of blurring the boundary between them.
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