Advice columnist Ann Landers once wrote, “More marriages are wrecked on the rocks of religious difference than most people can imagine.” It is a fact that religious differences are one of the principal causes of problems in marriages. How could it be otherwise? It could not be, unless our faith were unimportant to us. The only way religious differences can keep from being a problem is if we leave God out of our lives altogether, and then we really do have a problem.
Since it is important for married people to share the same faith, and since most problems do not work themselves out, I strongly recommend that couples with different faiths consider the following:
Diligently attack and solve the problem by getting toge...