How to Help Your Mixed Marriage Succeed

Here are some points for success:

• Discuss these questions honestly.
• Be respectful of each other's honesty
• Get to know and respect your spouse's faith.
• Don't let the nonessentials get in the way.
• Find a worship pattern that fits your faith and your family.
• Take the religious education of your children seriously.
• Pray together as a couple and as a family.
• Dont be afraid to ask for help. Contact your pastor, local marriage counsellors, and other couples with similar experiences.
• Don't stop talking to each other.
• Remember the bottom line is communication. Each of you has to realize that your spouse's faith is as important to him or her as yours is to you.

Explaining mixed marriage in Ireland

"Mixed marriage" strictly means a marriage contracted between a Christian and a non-Christian, but it has come to mean, particularly in Ireland, a marriage contracted between a Roman Catholic and another Christian from the Protestant denomination.
Strictly this should be called an Interchurch marriage, for it is a marriage between two Christians who belong to different denominations. We should not forget that this term would include Church of Ireland-Presbyterian marriages and other inter-Protestant marriages. While it is more correct to use the term "Interchurch marriage" for those marriages where both partners are deeply committed to their own churches the term "mixed marriage" is readily understood in Ireland.
However, it must be remembered that the original meaning of the term - a marriage between a Christian and a non-Christian - still applies, and these marriages still occur in Ireland today. Examples of Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian marriages are known and can pose different challenges.

so...what do you think about explaining???

How Mixed Couple are Helping to Heal Divisions in Our Community

The Christian must pray that these tensions may cease, and that real peace, not just an uneasy calm, may return to our country. When communities inter-marry it can lead to an increase of knowledge and understanding, for two families are inextricably linked in the children of these marriages and slowly come to lose the fear that they have of one another.There are complicated theological factors discouraging inter-marriage and in the past the Churches made it difficult to use this method of reconciliation. It is our experience that such marriages can be full of love and can make two differing people truly become "one flesh".

These marriages, by the fact that they happen at all, can be a beginning of the reconciliation so needed in our community and are increasingly recognised as such by the main Churches and some political parties.

Couples do not want to marry as a political move or to further the ecumenical movement, but wish to marry for love and to get on with their lives together.

Factor and Problems about Mixed Marriage

Hello every one...
Today i meet the one article about mixed marriage..
so,we can discus about this article..


Winda Handayani is an Indonesian Muslim married to Maarten Hekman, a Dutch (nominally, it seems) Christian. They met over the internet and then in 2001 Hekman came to Indonesia to meet Winda, a Javanese.

Later they decided to get married but the problem of differing religions came up. Winda's family insisted that the marriage be done according to Islam but Hekman was unwilling to convert and Winda did not believe it right that he should convert just in order to get married. Hekman also accepted that Winda did not wish to convert to Christianity. To get around the problem they underwent a civil, state, marriage only.

Although they have not yet had children the question of what religious instruction any offspring should receive is something that they have discussed, and disagreed about. Winda wants their children taught Islam, while Hekman believes, in true Dutch secular fashion, that the children should not be raised according to any particular religion, and that later they should be free to choose for themselves.

Chelsea Clinton's bridegroom Problem of mixed marriages is not a religious matter, but a national one

Hello everyone..
How are you today?i hope you all fine.
Today, i would like about it's title...
So, now we discuss about this article ok..
this article i take from http://www.ynetnews.com
I hope we reading and you all give your opinion about this article.

Chelsea Clinton's bridegroom

Problem of mixed marriages is not a religious matter, but a national one

Aliza Lavi

Published:

01.01.10, 13:05 / Israel Opinion

Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of one of the most prominent families in American politics, has chosen a Jew for a husband. The groom-to-be, Marc Mezvinsky, is the member of a family of businesspeople and politicians. Further proof that Jews can be found in the very center of the American establishment: The former president and the current secretary of state will be the in-laws of a Jewish guy.

With all of our appreciation and very long friendship with Bill and Hillary Clinton, and despite the fact that the latter's image serves as a role model to many women across the world – we could look at the same story from an opposite angle, and we should be concerned by it.

A guy from a Jewish family enters a mixed marriage. There is no sign that Chelsea Clinton plans to convert to Judaism. And perhaps Marc, like many of the Jewish members of his generation, is marrying the woman he loves without asking questions which are seemingly obsolete.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are true friends of Israel and the Jewish people. When Hillary spoke, as first lady, on the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day, she began her address with quotes from the weekly Torah portion. Few Israeli politicians do so. By doing this, Hillary demonstrated an intimate closeness to the Jewish people and their heritage. During the battle for the restoration of Holocaust victims' property from banks in Switzerland, it was Hillary who recruited Bill to the effort for the sake of historic justice. But nonetheless, our children cannot marry the Clinton family.

The number of mixed marriages in the Diaspora has increased by 200% in the past 50 years. About 55% of all Jews' marriages are mixed ones. In one-quarter of families, the children of the next generation will no longer be Jewish, and at best will have a loose connection to their Jewish roots. A look at the future shows that within a number of generations, American Jewry will nearly disappear, excluding its religious and haredi part.