A Happy Marriage
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A happy marriage is a blessing—one that sometimes seems elusive. Yet in Christ, true joy is possible. Today, William and Rebecca VanDoodewaard join Aaron Garriott in the studio to discuss Rebecca's new book, A Happy Marriage.
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Meet Today's Speakers:
Rebecca VanDoodewaard is a freelance editor and is author of many books, including Reformation Women, Uprooted, and A Happy Marriage.
William VanDoodewaard is academic dean and professor of church history at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Greenville, SC.
Aaron Garriott is managing editor of Tabletalk magazine, resident adjunct professor at Reformation Bible College, and a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | So much of the Christian life, right, is for us, but not about us. |
| 0:04.0 | And if you think of different aspects of that, maybe it's church, maybe it's definitely the sacraments. |
| 0:12.0 | These gifts from God are for us, but they're not about us. They're about Him. |
| 0:17.0 | They're about our being sanctified in order to glorify him better and bless those around us more. |
| 0:24.7 | And so when we see our marriage in that light, it's not about me. |
| 0:30.1 | That actually is very freeing. |
| 0:43.3 | What is marriage? What is a happy marriage? And how do we pursue one? Hello and welcome to a special Monday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:47.3 | Recently, Ligonier's managing editor, Aaron Garriottet, sat down with Rebecca Van Dodevard and her husband, William William to discuss marriage and her new book, A Happy Marriage. |
| 0:58.0 | In a time of which marriage is under attack, these conversations are so important. |
| 1:03.7 | So I hope you'll stay with us to hear Aaron's conversation with the Van Dodevards. |
| 1:10.4 | Thank you for joining me in the studio |
| 1:12.5 | to discuss your new book, Rebecca, |
| 1:14.0 | Happy Marriage, Covenant Joy in a Fallen World. |
| 1:17.9 | This isn't your average book on marriage. |
| 1:20.2 | I remember when you and I first started talking |
| 1:21.9 | about this book project, Rebecca. |
| 1:23.9 | I realized quickly that this book was different |
| 1:25.8 | from other books that you see on marriage. |
| 1:28.9 | But before we get into why it's so unique, Rebecca, you've written quite a bit on church history. |
| 1:33.1 | Tell us why you decided to write a book on marriage in the first place. |
| 1:37.6 | There was a church in Canada that asked me to speak at a ladies' event on marriage, but they |
| 1:42.6 | didn't, they weren't any more specific than |
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