How Family Affects Faith—and Vice Versa

There’s a direct hyperlink between being raised in a household with a mom and dad current and a dedication to religion, in line with the president and founding father of Communio, a nonprofit that equips church buildings to work for the renewal of wholesome relationships, marriages, and the household.

“Many pastors don’t know that 80% of everybody sitting in the pews on Sunday morning come from a home where mom and dad stayed continuously married,” says Communio’s J.P. De Gance. 

After working in public policy and politics in Washington, D.C., De Gance says he started to see that “so much of what’s going on wrong in our country flows from the collapse of family and faith.” 

He began Communio to return alongside churches to help them determine how they will foster wholesome households and marriages, and to equip singles with the instruments to create these thriving relationships sooner or later, with a aim towards furthering the Gospel in America.  

De Gance joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to clarify why an American revival of religion requires a restoration of the household. 

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