Christine Colon

Christine Colón (PhD) is co-author of Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today’s Church (Brazos 2009). She is associate professor of English at Wheaton College, IL where she teaches courses in writing as well as in English literature. In her life as an English professor she has published articles on authors such as Jane Austen, Joanna Baillie, and Anne Brontë, and she has published a monograph entitled Joanna Baillie and the Art of Moral Influence. Her work on singleness and celibacy has given her opportunities to write for Christianity Today and to speak to various groups of singles and married couples on the place of Christian singles in today’s church.