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“[E]ven Christians who really strive for transparency with one another, and accountability, when it comes to their marriage they may not be willing to be so transparent. And it’s hard of course. You don’t want to talk about these things. What are the three big things they tell you you’ll fight about? Sex, family, and money. Who wants to talk about these things, even with fairly close friends? But I’m daily more convinced that this is necessary. And, frankly, we know that Christians in America have as high a divorce rate as non-Christians, which to me is the single most depressing statistic about failures in the church . . . [I]f we were more intentional about recognizing that marriage is a community project, we might be able to get those numbers to turn around.”
—Lauren Winner, author of the spiritual memoir Girl Meets God, in conversation with Warren Smith of Evangelical Press News (Jan. 13, 2004) about marriage, sex and other topics. | 
