When a house is built, two things need to be checked carefully: the foundation must be solid, and the walls must be straight. If the ground settles unevenly, small cracks will begin to show. Over time, doors will stop closing properly, and the floors will begin to slope. The house may still stand, but the strain runs through every room. In much the same way, marriage was designed to rest on shared faith in Christ and to rise in communion with Him. When a husband doesn’t share his wife’s Christian faith, that spiritual ground is uneven, and pressure begins to grow. If you’re married to an unbelieving man, you may feel as though you are carrying the spiritual weight of the home by yourself. You may pray and attend church on your own and wonder what kind of faith your children will choose one day. Yet research offers genuine hope. A 2016 Pew Research Center study of mixed-religion households found that nearly half of children raised in interfaith families later identified with their mother’s religion. Barna’s 2019 research reported that practicing Christian teens most often pointed to their moms as the primary source of spiritual guidance. These findings do not diminish a father’s role, but they remind ...