27 February 2014, The Tablet

Happier ever afters


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Marriage Care is a charity is at the forefront of the efforts to stem the rise in family breakdown. Its chief executive, Mark Molden, tells Christopher Lamb he combines a determination to halt the trend with an understanding of the pressures on couplesThere was a precise moment when Mark Molden returned to his Christian faith. It was 1999 and he was then a single father of two preparing to spend Christmas Eve on his own. He relates how he was invited to an Anglican carol service where the vicar talked about new beginnings. Molden described having a ­“spiritual encounter” that brought him back to Christianity. In 2002 he married again and had four more children with his second wife. Casually dressed in dark blue jeans and a purple shirt, 43-year-old Molden has a friendly ma
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