Marriage & Home / Matrimonio & Hogar

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30/04/2026

On February 19, 1934, in Erie, Pennsylvania, a thirty-year-old vaudeville comedian named Leslie Townes Hope married a twenty-four-year-old nightclub singer named Dolores DeFina.
He went by Bob. She performed as Dolores Reade.
He had some radio work and modest stage success, nothing suggesting what was coming. She had a beautiful voice and her own performing ambitions. They were a young couple in show business, trying to build something in the middle of the Depression with the usual mix of hope and uncertainty.
Nobody could have predicted they would still be married sixty-nine years later.

By 1939, Bob Hope's career was gaining momentum. His radio show was building an audience. Films were coming. The trajectory was pointing somewhere significant.
Dolores made the choice that many women of that era made, stepping back from her own performing career to support his. What distinguished their partnership was what she became in that role: not a passive presence but an active one. She was involved in the work, in the decisions, in the decades of enterprise that Bob Hope's career would require.
When Bob began his USO tours in 1941 — bringing entertainment to American troops in dangerous conditions — Dolores supported the mission from home. Those tours would continue for fifty years, taking him to war zones in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. He would leave for months at a time to perform for soldiers. She managed everything in his absence and was there when he returned.
That is a particular kind of commitment that gets less attention than the public work.
They built a life in Los Angeles. They adopted four children. They became deeply involved in charitable work — hospitals, educational institutions, the causes that occupied the years when the cameras weren't running.

Bob Hope became famous in a way that younger generations might find difficult to fully appreciate. For decades, he was among the most recognized faces in America. His television comedy specials were national events. The USO tours made him a symbol of military support that transcended entertainment. He was, for a very long time, simply everywhere.
Through all of it, Dolores was there.
Hollywood marriages in the mid-twentieth century were famously unstable. Elizabeth Taylor married 8 times. Mickey Rooney married eight times. Multiple marriages were nearly expected of major stars — fame, constant travel, and the specific pressures of celebrity combined to make long-term commitment an exception rather than a rule.
Bob and Dolores Hope stayed married for sixty-nine years.
Was it perfect? Almost certainly not — no marriage spanning seven decades is. The post won't pretend otherwise. There were pressures and challenges that came with the territory of that kind of fame and that kind of life. But they stayed. They kept choosing each other through the Depression, through World War II, through Korea and Vietnam and the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall and into the twenty-first century. They married when radio was the dominant medium and lived to see the internet.

Bob Hope died on July 27, 2003. He was one hundred years old.
They had been married for sixty-nine years.
Dolores lived another 8 years without him, dying in 2011 at the age of one hundred and two.
That photograph from 1939 — if you find it — shows 2 young people at the beginning of everything. Bob's career is just starting to take off. Dolores is poised and beautiful. They have no idea what's coming: the decades of work, the tours, the fame, the children, the life they will build and inhabit together until one of them is gone.
Whatever was coming, they would face it together.

Classic Hollywood gave the world extraordinary films and legendary stars and entertainment that still holds up. It also gave the world endless tabloid drama, spectacular commitment failures, and cautionary tales about what fame does to relationship.
Bob and Dolores Hope are a reminder that it didn't have to go that way.
A comedian and a singer met, fell in love, got married, built a life together, raised children, worked, supported each other, gave back, and stayed.
For sixty-nine years.
Not perfect. Not a fairy tale. Just two people who chose each other and kept choosing each other until they couldn't anymore.
That's not a Hollywood story.
That's a human one.

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03/04/2026

Pastor Josh Howerton recently made headlines for delivering such powerful, counter-cultural messages at Lakepointe Church that they’ve had life-changing, societal impact.

On February 22, Howerton started his message by playing a video of a young couple, Colton and Kaylee, who testified about being “Christians in name but not in how [they] lived.” They were living together and, during pre-marital counseling, their counselor told them, “We can get you married right now, or you guys can live in separate houses.” That is when the couple became convicted and decided they wanted to get baptized and married. So an hour after they were baptized, they got married.

After hearing Colton and Kaylee’s story and listening to Pastor Howerton teach from God’s word about the sacred design and purpose of marriage, 52 couples who had been living together immediately decided to get married.

What had these 52 couples learned? Howerton explained that when the Pharisees questioned Jesus about marriage, he answered, “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” God created marriage to be a lifelong covenant that is not to be taken lightly.

As Christians, God has called us to glorify Him in our relationship with our spouse. In his letter to the Corinthian church, the Apostle Paul wrote, “[D]o you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

In addition, Paul explained to the church in Ephesus that the covenant relationship between husband and wife reflects the covenant relationship between Christ and the church, as we are members of his body:

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

If Gen Z Christians begin to take marriage as seriously as God designed it to be, they can start to rebuild the foundation of a strong society: the fundamental building blocks of marriage and family. As sociologists have found time and time again, intact, two-parent families decrease rates of mental illness, poverty, and crime.

In addition, by revitalizing a marriage culture and establishing stable, close-knit families, Gen Z can set an example for the rest of the world, reflecting the beauty of God’s grace and truth and draw others to Him.

Dr. David Closson, FRC’s director of the Center for Biblical Worldview and author of “Biblical Principles for Human Sexuality,” is also heartened by the 52 couples who decided to get married after listening to Howerton’s biblical message. He told The Washington Stand, “This is an encouraging example of what can happen when the church clearly and compassionately calls people to align their lives with God’s design for marriage. In a culture that often normalizes cohabitation, it is powerful to see couples take meaningful steps toward covenant commitment. Marriage is not merely a social arrangement, but a sacred institution established by God, and pastors play an important role in helping people understand its significance.”

In addition, Closson urged pastors to walk alongside couples throughout their marriage, saying, “Moments like this highlight the need for ongoing discipleship so that couples are equipped not just to marry, but to build Christ-centered marriages that endure. This kind of pastoral leadership is a needed reminder that truth and grace must go hand-in-hand.”

𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝐴𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛. 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑.

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