Scott and Mychael Klajic
are the duo behind the blog, with the experience of eight years together and four children
to show for it. The pair previously wrote about Christian marriage at the
now-defunct Courtship Pledge website,
abandoned after a major technical glitch erased two years of work. The new
site is nominally about “God’s hierarchy for marriage” but though nearly every
post intersects in some way with the topic, relationships do not seem to be the
site’s only (or even its primary) focus.
Not by a long shot.
In another, entitled “Silence Is Affirmation”, Mychael ponders the most godly and effective course of action when she finds
herself among Christian women verbally running down their husbands. That’s not
one I could write, but her conclusions will interest me.
And in my favourite post so far, Scott sets
out to reconcile his obligations as a psychologist bound by the American Psychological Association Code of
Ethics with his worldview as a Christian … and concludes that he may never
qualify as “culturally competent” by the standards of the APA:
“This kind of thinking has several broad implications.
1. Based on my beliefs, am I culturally competent to counsel a gay married couple, or any non-heterosexual monogamous one?
2. Based on my beliefs, am I culturally competent to counsel pre-marital couples who are sexually active?
3. Based on my beliefs, am I culturally competent to counsel Christian couples who are totally committed to the ‘egalitarian,’ ‘mutually submissive’ form of marriage that modern Christian pastors are peddling.”
Neither Scott nor Mychael is inclined to mince
words. Their firm commitment to “live out marriage God’s way” is increasingly counter-cultural
even within the modern Christian subculture.
It’s a different approach to a whole
spectrum of marriage-related subjects, and well worth a look.
Hey there! Thanks so much for this review and linkback. I will come back and read some more in a bit, but busy right now. Scott
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