Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology

The church has played a role in fostering positive, enduring understandings of family. It has also played a role in perpetuating ethically harmful and theologically unsound understandings. Two motivating questions this issue of Vision asks are: (1) How can the church play a positive role in supporting families without relying on a narrow understanding of the ideal family unit itself? (2) What definition of family needs to replace the antiquated and probably-never-accurate conceptions of the traditional, nuclear family?