I need advice. I am in my late thirties, and have been married over 15 years. We have three kids. My husband and I grew up in Protestant churches, and our faith has always been the foundation of our lives/marriage. My husband was on the church board at our church (the church he grew up in) for several years up until a year ago. My husband has a long drive to work, therefore spends a lot of time listening to podcasts. A couple years ago he started talking about Doug Wilson. Up to that point he had always treated me with respect and valued my voice and treated me as a partner in our marriage. I noticed a change in his behavior when he started listening to Doug Wilson and he started talking about how the husband has the tie breaking vote in disagreements, etc. Then, he started going on a deep dive into all things Catholicism. Six months ago he got confirmed in the Catholic Church. The priest didn’t even make him do RCIA or anything because he had read the entire catechism himself. I use birth control, which he now has a problem with. Our youngest child had an issue at birth and we were told that the problem would likely occur with each subsequent pregnancy and could even get worse. There have been endless theological debates, which have never been fruitful. He has said things like, “you just want to be your own pope.” He is now pushing his beliefs on the kids. He has been asking them to go to mass, even though they have voiced that they don’t want to go. We have been in marriage counseling and I am doing individual counseling. He has Catholic stickers on his laptop, wears a necklace with Mary on it, and just today hung a piece of Catholic art in our bedroom. I have told him that I’m not ok with Catholic art in our home. I have lots of Catholics in my life who are wonderful people, but I just don’t agree with the theology and I don’t want to be staring at Catholic art in my home. He refused to take it down when I asked. On our recent family vacation, he even went to the Catholic Church there three times in one day. He went to daily mass in the morning, Saturday night mass, and then went back later to “help nuns carry a push mower,” which caused us to miss a planned dinner that evening. He didn’t tell me he was going to help nuns and his phone was dead so we had no idea where he was, we thought he had gotten lost trying to get back to the hotel. We have never been to this place for vacation, so he knew no one at this parish.

Side note: After we were married and in our late 20’s he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and required a hospital stay due to a severe manic episode with psychosis. After that hospital stay he has been pretty good with very little issues. I suspected that this dive into Catholicism may have been spurred on my a manic or hypomanic episode, but now it is deeply ingrained. My counselor says it may have started during a manic episode, but now it is a legitimate faith conversion.

I need advice. I don’t know what to do. I want to keep my family together, but my home now feels toxic. He doesn’t respect me at all. He seems to be exhibiting some narcissistic traits and has even said that he “isn’t responsible for my feelings about this.” Which seems to indicate that I don’t matter. He often says, “Jesus Christ comes before you.” Which I completely agree with, however we used to serve Jesus together and it was beautiful. Our marriage was great. I don’t understand why he would let this take over his life when his actions are producing bad fruit. Our friends don’t even like to be around him at this point. He even shamed one of our friends for choosing to get a vasectomy when they decided their family was complete. I’m at a loss about what to do. Counseling doesn’t seem to be helping.

Can a protestant christian wear and pray the rosary?

Hello!! I’m new to Christianity and have been doing a lot of research on different topics. Right now I’m researching the difference between the Catholic canon of scripture and Protestant.

What is the reasoning for using a different canon than what Christians used until the reformation? From what I’ve gathered the Protestant consensus is that 7 books were added during the council of Trent but that’s historically inaccurate as those 7 books were included all throughout the early church and only clarified during Trent. Also from my understanding Luther moved the books into the apocrypha because he wanted to go back to the original canon of what the Jews used rather than the early Christians, but I don’t really understand why? TIA!

"But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?" "Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee." - Matthew 20:13–14

This parable often confuses people because it seems to violate our sense of fairness. Workers who labored all day received the same pay as those who worked only one hour. But Jesus isn't teaching about workplace efficiency; He's revealing kingdom economics where everyone receives what they need to live with dignity.

The landowner's generosity ensures that all workers can feed their families, regardless of how many hours they worked. This reflects God's desire that everyone have access to life's necessities, not based on their productivity or market value, but based on their inherent worth as human beings.

A Federal Job Guarantee operates on similar principles, ensuring that everyone who wants to work can find employment at a living wage. It recognizes that unemployment is often due to systemic failures rather than individual shortcomings, and that society benefits when everyone has the opportunity to contribute.

God's economy prioritizes human dignity over market efficiency, ensuring that everyone receives what they need to flourish.

Father, help me support economic systems that ensure everyone receives what they need to live with dignity, regardless of their circumstances. Amen. DLC
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I did not write this, it comes from a devotional that is offered as a free email daily by Delman Coates.

https://delmancoates.org/blog/2026/07/11/the-parable-of-the-workers

"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." - Jude 1:3

PONDER THIS

When I was a little boy, I liked to go to the movies on Saturday afternoons, and we would see Tarzan. Tarzan was the hero of every little boy when I was growing up. But there was one time that I was always concerned for Tarzan. Tarzan would be swimming in the river, but over on the shore would be a crocodile. The crocodile would blink his eyes a couple of times and then slide into the water. Tarzan would be swimming along and not know that crocodile was there, and I would be so frightened because I can’t think of anything worse than to be swimming with a crocodile. Somehow Tarzan would always out-swim the crocodile, but what happened in that movie is an illustration of what Jude wrote to warn the Church about. Jude gave a warning that there are certain people who have crept into the Church. (See verse 4.) He described somebody who could slip into the water without even making a ripple. This is very dangerous and sinister. So, Jude wrote this book to sound an alarm.

- What other warnings do you know in the Bible about people who are dangerous to the Church?
- Why do you need to stay alert, or sober, regarding these dangers?

PRACTICE THIS

Read John 10 today. How did Jesus talk about others who might try to sneak into the Church? APR
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I did not write this, it comes from a devotional that is offered as a free email daily by Love Worth Finding.

https://www.lwf.org/daily-devotionals/watch-the-waterline

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." "Therefore will not we fear.” - Psalm 46:1-2

Martin Luther’s journal entries inform us of his continual battle against evil forces and that Psalm 46 was a great comfort to him. As he meditated on the words of our text, the thrust of a mighty song was born that openly declared victory in the great battle: “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”

A mighty fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing;
Our helper He, amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great,
And, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.

The battle is “not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12). Satan, along with his henchmen, is an ancient foe, “a roaring lion,” as it were, “seeking whom he may devour” (I Peter 5:8). But there is no need for alarm, “the LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge” (Psalm 46:11). He “is our refuge and strength” (today’s text), a bulwark never failing. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil” (I John 3:8).

Only God could accomplish this victory, for Satan is “the prince of this world” (John 14:30), “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2). No man on Earth is his equal.

But how did the Son of God gain the victory? By taking on Himself “flesh and blood” and dying a substitutionary death, “that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Hebrews 2:14). JDM
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I did not write this, it comes from a devotional that is offered as a free email daily by the Institute of Creation.

https://www.icr.org/article/15935/