So last month, I taught a few classes, three to be exact, and the whole idea was this idea

of being able to defend your faith.

And I was talking to students.

And I really thought that the questions, the majority of the questions that I would get would

be around issues of the problem of evil, right? Maybe if you got a student

in there was super interested in the topic of apologetics, maybe they might ask about the cosmological

argument or the various proofs, or how to even fight back against some of the claims that you see

within culture, within education that seem to be somewhat hostile

to Christianity. Like, how would you respond to that both in a cultural sense, but in a way

that was academically rigorous, right? That's what I expected. Instead, a significant number of the

questions were about relationships. It was about maintaining relationships as friends.

It was about maintaining relationships with respect to how do they meet your wife one day?

How do they meet their husband one day?

What are the things that they should look for?

And that was interesting to me.

It wasn't completely off the topic of the things that I was discussing because obviously

relationships are very important to society as a whole. But I just didn't expect it. And so it led us down this

path of actually having some really good discussions of what makes for strong relationships,

what makes for strong marriages. And then I started to dive in a little bit deeper, and I realized that the reason why

this question is so prevalent among a lot of our youth right now is because the stats demonstrate

that marriage almost looks like it's going away, that it is decreasing so rapidly that even though

right now it seems ridiculous to assume that we could one day live in a country where marriage

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