I read the following article online on Huffington Post and I think it addresses an interesting topic in today's society. To our parents, certainly marrying within your religion was important, when your community was the church family you saw several times a week and your neighbors, who went to the same church or the Methodist one down the street. But today, with global communities and instant connections with people across the country or around the world - is religion really as important a foundation as we make it? One interesting thing in Islam I found was that Muslim men are permitted to marry "chaste Christian or Catholic" women. In my own life, Mark, though raised Christian, self-identifies as "agnostic" and although I self-identify as "Christian", I'm not sure if I fit the Billy Graham definition. Multi-faith homes can bring challenge and trials, certainly, but also can in many ways make you more
