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abortion
Catholic Catechism on
academic nonbeliever
activist nonbeliever
Adler, Felix
adulthood, transition to
age at marriage, divorce and
agnostics
Julie & Matthew (Mormon/agnostic)
Lena & Sean (Episcopalian/agnostic-Baha’i)
Tom & Danielle (agnostic/Southern Baptist)
agreement to disagree
Ahrons, Constance, The Good Divorce
alcohol addiction
Altemeyer, Bob
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Grace (Putnam and Campbell)
American Secular Census
Americans
mobility impact on relationships
religious beliefs trends
Amish, and interfaith marriage
ancient writings
Anderson, Leith, Winning the Values War in a Changing Culture
Andrew & Lewis (atheist/Christian)
Anna & Gary (Catholic/atheist/Baptist)
Anthony, Susan B.
anti-theist
Apache Wedding Prayer
apatheist
Arlene & Nate (Southern Baptist/atheist)
children
Armstrong, Karen, In the Beginning
Aron, Janice
atheists
Andrew & Lewis (atheist/Christian)
Anna & Gary (Catholic/atheist/Baptist)
Arlene & Nate (Southern Baptist/atheist)
belief in God
Dale & Rebecca (atheist/Christian)
dogmatic beliefs
Evan & Cate (atheist/Catholic)
Kevin & Nora (Catholic/atheist)
marriage
meetings
missing elements due to spouse being
news paradox and
organized groups
“Aunt Susan Principle,”
backstory
Baha’i
Lena & Sean (Episcopalian/agnostic-Baha’i)
marriage
Reciprocity Principle
baptism
Baptist Faith and Message
Baptists
Anna & Gary (Catholic/atheist/Baptist)
Hope & David (Baptists)
Barna, George
Baumrind, Diana
belief system, standard views
Belief-O-Matic quiz
beliefs
Christian
gap between Christian and atheist
overlapping
reaction to change
vs. values
Benedict (pope)
biases
Bible
Psalm
Matthew 21:21
First Corinthians
First Corinthians
First Corinthians 7:12–14
Second Corinthians 6:14–15
Timothy 5:22
biblical literalism
birth control, Catholic Catechism on
Black Protestant churches
blended wedding ceremony
Book of Common Prayer
Botton, Alain de
“bronies,”
Buddha’s sermon at Rajagaha
Buddhavacana
Buddhism
Reciprocity Principle
Campbell, David
American Grace
capital punishment
Cassidy & Bill (Evangelical Pentecostal)
Catechism
Catholic Church
and interfaith marriage
Catholicism
Catholics
Anna & Gary (Catholic/atheist/Baptist)
Evan & Cate (atheist/Catholic)
Mark & Mary (secular humanist/Catholic)
parents in mixed marriages
Pete & Joan (humanist/Catholic)
in Québec
celestial marriage
Chalom, Adam
change
in couples
in religious identity
children
benefit of different perspectives for
christening
church attendance
circumcision decision
coming of age
confidence in beliefs
discipline of
impact on relationships
protecting
religious identity
religious literacy
religious or nonreligious identity
religious training
Christians
Andrew & Lewis (atheist/Christian)
and atheists
beliefs
change to atheist
Dale & Rebecca (atheist/Christian)
Reciprocity Principle
sense of betrayal
see also specific denominations
Christians Tired of Being Misrepresented
church attendance
by children
and happiness
reasons for
Church of Freethought
church-state separation
circumcision decision
civil wedding ceremony
Code of Canon Law
Coleman, Thomas
college
coming of age
communication
about differences
challenging context in
dogmatic thinking and
need for
sorting negotiables and nonnegotiables
community
conflict, in extended family
Confucianism, Reciprocity Principle
connection
Conservative Judaism
and interfaith marriage
contempt
control
Conversation with God (Walsch)
conversion
desire for partner
efforts
corporal punishment
counseling
premarital
couples
Andrew & Lewis (atheist/Christian)
Anna & Gary (Catholic/atheist/Baptist)
Arlene & Nate (Southern Baptist/atheist)
Cassidy & Bill (Evangelical Pentecostal)
Dale & Rebecca (atheist/Christian)
Evan & Cate (atheist/Catholic)
Hope & David (Baptists)
Julie & Matthew (Mormon/agnostic)
Kevin & Nora (Catholic/atheist)
Lena & Sean (Episcopalian/agnostic-Baha’i)
Mark & Mary (secular humanist/Catholic)
Pete & Joan (humanist/Catholic)
Scott & Dhanya (nonreligious/Hindu)
Tom & Danielle (agnostic/Southern Baptist)
creed
culture war
custody question
Dale & Rebecca (atheist/Christian)
belonging
on sharing views with children
Dawkins, Richard
Unweaving the Rainbow
deconversion
avoiding efforts at
partner reaction to
denominations, wedding basics
détente
discipline of children
dispensation from canonical form
dispensation from disparity of cult
diversity
in extended family
increase
division, in religion
divorce
age at marriage and
belief differences and
Catholic Catechism on
by Christian Evangelicals
parenting after
religion as deal breaker
talk of
typology of
Dobson, James
DOG scale
dogmatism
doubt
dyadic consensus
Economist
empathy
Episcopal Church
Lena & Sean (Episcopalian/agnostic-Baha’i)
Ethical Culture Society
coming-of-age program
Evan & Cate (atheist/Catholic)
Evangelical Left
Evangelical Pentecostals, Cassidy & Bill (Evangelical Pentecostal)
Evangelicals
divorce by
evolution
exclusivity, in religion
extended family
breakthrough conversation to relieve tension
disapproval from
diversity in
key issues of conflict
mistreatment from
faith
Faith Matters Survey
family
religious identity
see also extended family
fear of rejection
feeling thermometer
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Francis (pope)
freethinker
fundamentalism
gay marriage
Gershoff, Elizabeth
Gibran, Khalil
The Prophet
God
Going to Extremes (Sunstein)
Golden Rule
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible (Grayling)
The Good Divorce (Ahrons)
Gottman, John
grace, saying
Grayling, A.C.
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
Meditations for the Humanist
Grusec, Joan
handfasting ritual
happiness, and church attendance
Harris, Sam
Hater, Robert
heaven, access to
hell
risk of
Hinduism
and interfaith marriage
Reciprocity Principle
Scott & Dhanya (nonreligious/Hindu)
wedding ceremony
Hitchens, Christopher
holidays
Holley, Sarah
homosexuality
Catholic Catechism on
Muslim views
Hope & David (Baptists)
worry about children
How to Prevent an Intermarriage (Packouz)
Humanist Confirmation program
Humanist Judaism
humanist naming ceremonies
humanists
meetings
Pete & Joan (humanist/Catholic)
Hunsberger, Bruce
husband as head
Huxley, Thomas Henry
hypocrisy
I Ching
ideas, and respect
ijtihad (thinking independently)
In the Beginning (Armstrong)
inclusion
indoctrination
interfaith marriage
denominational barriers
see also mixed-belief marriage
interracial marriage
Islam
and interfaith marriage
Reciprocity Principle
Jainism, Reciprocity Principle
Jehovah’s Witnesses
and interfaith marriage
Jerris, Miriam
jokes
Journal of Personality
Judaism
Reciprocity Principle
traditions
Julie & Matthew (Mormon/agnostic)
Kellogg, John Harvey
Kevin & Nora (Catholic/atheist)
LaNave, Anna
Landings International
Lehmiller, Justin
Lena & Sean (Episcopalian/agnostic-Baha’i)
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights
life-satisfaction indicators
Lim, Chaeyoon
love
unconditional
Lutheranism, family views
Mainline Protestants
beliefs
marital satisfaction
Mark & Mary (secular humanist/Catholic)
marriage
change in
and faith in Jesus
interracial
mixed-belief
McGonigle, Mark
McGowan-Sikes survey
on conversion efforts by partner
on discovery of differences
on extended family tensions
on wedding ceremony
McGrath, Alister
mealtime blessing
Meditations for the Humanist (Grayling)
Mennonites, and interfaith marriage
mixed-belief marriage
chance of success
communication in
social acceptance
statistics
Moomaw, Donn
moral development
Moral Majority
morals, sharing
Mormonism
and interfaith marriage
salvation views
self-image
Sunday school
movies with religious themes
Multidimensional Anger Inventory
music at wedding
NALT (Not All Like That) Christians Project
negotiables, sorting from nonnegotiables
NEO (Neuroticism-Extroversion-Openness) Inventory
New Sincerity trend
“news paradox,”
and atheists
nirvana
nonbelief, typology of
nonbelievers
reaction to religion
variety of
“Nones,”
Non-Prophet Status
nonreligious
interest in knowing reasons
Scott & Dhanya (nonreligious/Hindu)
self-esteem of
terminology issues
and wedding ceremony
nonreligious identity of children
non-theist
Nonviolent Communication technique
Nucci, Larry
open-mindedness
opinion, and respect
Orthodox Judaism
and interfaith marriage
Packouz, Kalman
How to Prevent an Intermarriage
parenting
after divorce
parents, views
party sorting
Pentecostalism
Penton, James
personal respect
Pete & Joan (humanist/Catholic)
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Pew Forum on Religious Landscape survey
Platonic philosophy, Reciprocity Principle
polarization
prasad (food offering)
prayer
before meal
at wedding
premarital counseling
promises
fundamentalist view of
The Prophet (Gibran)
Protestant Evangelicals
Protestants
beliefs
Psalm
Public Religion Research Institute
“Purple America,”
Putnam, Robert
American Grace
Québec, Catholics in
Qur’an
Rauch, Jonathan
Reciprocity Principle
Reconstructionist Judaism
re-fencing
Reform Judaism
rejection, fear of
relationships
classic risk factors
differences in
religion, assumptions about
religious, terminology issues
religious blog groups
religious communities, strength of
religious differences, learning about
religious doubt
religious fundamentalism
religious identity
change in
of children
decisions
of family
freedom to choose
statistics on change
struggle with
religious intermarriage, Jewish opponents of
of children
importance of
religious wedding ceremony
religiously unaffiliated
statistics
respect
separating types of
Riley, Naomi Schaefer
’ Til Faith Do Us Part
ritual
Ritual Atheist/Agnostic
Ritual Song of Krishna and Radha
Rokeach Dogmatism Scale
Romanek, Mark
Rosenberg, Marshall
Ryff Scales
sacred texts, in secular context
sacred wedding ceremony
salvation
Catholic doctrine on
same-sex marriage
Sarah & Justin (Christian/secular humanist)
Scott & Dhanya (nonreligous/Hindu)
dyadic consensus
Sears, William
secular
secular humanist
Mark & Mary (secular humanist/Catholic)
secular meetings
secular wedding ceremony
secularism, Judaism and
secular/religious marriage
helpful characteristics
positive side of
risks
wedding ceremony
secular/religious mix
Seeker-Agnostic
self-esteem, crisis of collective
separation
sex education
shame
shared experience
shared values
Shared Values Quiz
Sikes, Mary Ellen
Silver, Christopher
sin
social concerns
social identity, sharing
souls, concern of spouse
Southern Baptist
Arlene & Nate (Southern Baptist/atheist)
Tom & Danielle (agnostic/Southern Baptist)
Southern Baptists
attitudes toward
spanking
Stedman, Chris
stem cell research
stereotype, abandoning
suicide
Sunday
Sunday Assembly
Sunstein, Cass, Going to Extremes
support from family
Taoist philosophy
Reciprocity Principle
taqlid (following authority)
tension
breakthrough conversation to relieve
reducing
in wedding planning
Tentmaker Ministries
’ Til Faith Do Us Part (Riley)
tolerance
Tom & Danielle (agnostic/Southern Baptist)
children
wedding size
traditions
collision of
connecting to
unconditional love
coming-of-age program
principles
unity candle in wedding
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
universalism
Unweaving the Rainbow (Dawkins)
U.S. Religious Landscape Survey
values
vs. beliefs
confirming shared
sharing
teaching
Vanderbei, Robert
Vedas
Volokh, Eugene
Walsch, Neale Donald, Conversation with God
war
Washington Post, on interfaith marriages
wedding ceremony
blended
exchange of rings
purpose of
religious tradition
sacred
secular
secular vows
third tradition readings
Wernick, Pete and Joan
Wicca, Reciprocity Principle
Wine, Sherwin
Winning the Values War in a Changing Culture (Anderson)
worldviews
better example of
change by one partner
for children
differences in
labels
learning about
yoked with unbelievers