Lauren Winner explains, “The community is not so much cop as it is storyteller, telling and retelling the foundational stories that make sense of the community’s norms.”48 Marriage is not only about mutual companionship and romantic love, but it is the institution “out of which cultures and societies are formed.”49 Marriage “is about children, and household economy, and stability. And marriage is also about God.”50 Marriage forms a little society. And the health of that little society depends to some degree on the health of the larger surrounding society.
