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Garry and Ellen Duguid Interview
8 September 2010
We see in today’s secular society and even in church-going men, that much is wrong in marriage. Why are there so many breakdowns?
What is your book about?
The book is based on our own life-experience together with what we have gleaned from others’ writings and God’s perspective on marriage as in Scripture, drawing lessons from our mistakes. We look at men’s attitudes towards women from the ancient world to the present day. We detail the Image of God in man, the Love of the Father and His Covenant Relationship in all marriages. This is contrasted with Human Love and elements of Relationships. Other topics cover Submission, Leadership and the Roles of husband and wife, concluding with the Redeeming work of Jesus in the world and in marriage in particular.
What inspired you to write your book?
We see in today’s secular society and even in church-going men, that much is wrong in marriage. Why are there so many breakdowns? Why do so many reject commitment? Where are all the absent fathers? And why do they absent themselves? What are the root causes and the core issues? Until very recently we ourselves were ignorant of the reasons. Nonetheless the questions evoked within us the desire to discover answers and to share the message especially with men.
Tell us about yourself?
We have been together for 50 years, 47 of those as husband and wife and are now retired, living in West Sussex, England. We are Roman Catholics. We live in a house built in 1895 which we have furnished appropriately for its age. Our enjoyments include walking in the lovely Sussex countryside, writing and rummaging in junk shops for treasures. We have a married daughter and four grandchildren
Do you plan to write another book?
Yes, we have already commenced another book tentatively called “A Woman’s Place” as a working title. In some respects it is a companion volume to the “Where are all the Men?” but we now we plan to explore the whole question from a woman’s perspective: what does it really mean to be a woman? What did God mean woman to be?
