Christian marriage as part of God’s Big Plan.

A few years ago, a cartoon was published that showed a pastor behind a pulpit that had been armored so that it was like a fortress. There was something like a gun turret through which he spoke. The caption read, “Today my text is 1 Peter 3:1, ‘Wives submit to your husbands.’”

This passage has caused non-Christians to accuse us of being misogynistic and sexist. They call us patriarchal, primitive, and obsolete. And contemporary Christians have wondered if they are right…