Married People Are Happier; Religious Married People Are Happiest
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Statistics back up God's good plan for humanity and for His creation.
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| 0:00.0 | Breakpoint listeners, I'm excited to announce that we're releasing an additional round of tickets to the |
| 0:07.7 | 2024 Coulson Center National Conference. |
| 0:10.9 | If you are hoping to come to CCNC but missed your chance, now is your opportunity. |
| 0:15.4 | Join us in Arlington, Texas, May 30th through June 2nd, as we gather to cultivate courageous faith. |
| 0:21.5 | We'll be joined by a fantastic lineup of speakers who |
| 0:24.4 | have exemplified courage in the public square, including Dr. Al Moeller, Dr |
| 0:29.0 | Kristen Collier, Katie Faust, and more. You can also sign up for our pre-conference worldview intensive |
| 0:35.2 | on courageous citizenship. Remaining tickets for CCNC are limited, |
| 0:39.7 | so be sure to register soon if you want to join us. |
| 0:42.8 | To secure your spot today, go to Colsonconference.org. |
| 0:46.8 | That's Colson conference.org. What on a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of |
| 0:58.1 | unchanging truth? |
| 0:59.1 | For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. Well if sitcoms, movies, opinion pieces, and mainstream editorials were our only source of |
| 1:08.0 | information, we'd be forced to conclude that marriage is a path to misery. |
| 1:12.4 | It's the old ball and chain that only ties us down. that marriage, that marriage is a path to misery. |
| 1:12.5 | It's the old ball and chain that only ties us down, limits our freedom, and stifles our |
| 1:16.8 | sexual fun. |
| 1:18.3 | Many people think of marriage, less as settling down and much more as settling, especially young people who've been told you've got |
| 1:24.6 | plenty of time, live a little first, as if life ends after the wedding. |
| 1:28.9 | The truth, however, is that marriage is statistically the single best predictor of long-term happiness. |
| 1:34.7 | Writing in unheard, sociologist Brad Wilcox in the Institute for Family Studies David Bass |
| 1:39.5 | pointed to new research from the University of Chicago that suggests that, and I quote here, Americans |
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