Spouses, Sit Together at Church

Posted on November 14, 2026 
Filed under Opinion

Stephen McAlpine responds to an earlier article at The Gospel Coalition Australia. To their credit, TGCA has also published this response –

“I like a lot of what TGCA publishes, but I’m not sure about the premise of Dave Moore’s recent article on couples not sitting together in church. The headline is click-baity (’provocative’ as a recent TGCA editorial note on the article puts it), so there’s that. But more significantly, I’ve had private messages from everyday Christians who read the article and said ‘that’s weird’. Perhaps it’s not all weird, but I still don’t think in these times Moore’s advice is what I would commend. While the article is good for conversation, I’ve noticed in online discussions that it’s either being defended quite vociferously, or pointed out as weird. The truth probably lands somewhere in the middle.

Here are my responses to the article, in the form of various thoughts in no particular order. …”

– Read it here.