Guest post by Paul Burnham Introduction During the occasional discussions of polygyny in Church literature and on the Bloggernacle, I see two competing narratives—a religious narrative and a romantic narrative. In the religious narrative, God’s will must always prevail and on occasion His will has been that polygyny be practiced. In the romantic narrative, pair-bonding is the most important feature of marriage and polygyny is antithetical to true pair-bonding, making it unthinkable und...
