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Learning Solitude from Singles during a Pandemic
By: Alicia McClintic | June 3, 2020
Being a single adult during a global pandemic has been a very lonely experience. But in some ways, it has offered me an incredible gift—although it’s not the gift that most people assume.
The Life-Saving Divorce: Hope for People Leaving Destructive Relationships
By: Gretchen Baskerville | February 8, 2020
Are you in a destructive marriage? One of emotional, physical, or verbal abuse? Infidelity? Neglect? If you need a Life-Saving Divorce, there is hope for you, your faith, and your kids!
Single. Dating. Female. Pastor: 5 Things I Want the Church to Know
By: Alicia McClintic | June 5, 2019
Recently, I was invited to participate in a panel on singleness at a Christian conference. I shared my experience as a single woman pastor and how single clergy can feel isolated in a church culture where marriage is the default. It was the first time since university that I had an honest, direct, public conversation [...]
What If Singleness Isn’t Failure?
By: Krysti Wilkinson | June 5, 2019
No one says the word “failure” out loud, of course. No one would dare. But when marriage is the ideal that everyone is working toward, anything that falls short feels like you did something wrong.
Welcome to the Jungle: The Dating Adventures of a Fifty-Something Egalitarian
By: Cindy J. Hurd | June 5, 2019
It is crucial that we women who don’t fit into the church’s too-neat “happily ever after” narrative share our stories. Because God sees our struggles and the church should too.
Book Review: The Significance of Singleness: A Theological Vision for the Future of the Church
By: Kate Netzler Burch | April 4, 2019
In a faith centered on love and inclusion, are single people and their God-given gifts truly being welcomed in our churches? According to theologian Christina Hitchcock, definitely not. Instead, she argues, American evangelical churches suffer from a fear of single people.
The Significance of Singleness: A Theological Vision for the Future of the Church
By: Christina S. Hitchcock | April 3, 2019
Publisher's Description: The church needs to do a better job of speaking theologically to single Christians. Challenging prevailing evangelical assumptions about "the problem" of singleness, this book explains why the church needs single people and offers a contemporary theology of singleness relevant to all members of the church.
Book Review: Breaking the Marriage Idol
By: Andrea Kulberg | December 11, 2018
In Breaking the Marriage Idol, Kutter Calloway describes how the modern church has become distracted by pagan norms for sexual expression and marriage, and why this contributes to our idealization of marriage and the marginalization of unmarried persons. Arguing that the church has bought in to the Hollywood notion that marriage is the antidote to [...]
Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms
By: Kutter Callaway | December 10, 2018
Kutter Callaway considers why marriage, which is a blessing from God, shouldn't be expected or required of all Christians. Through an examination of Scripture, cultural analysis, and personal accounts, he reflects on how our narratives have limited our understanding of marriage and obscured our view of the life-giving and kingdom-serving roles of single people in [...]
Single People Aren't Problems to Be Fixed or Threats to Be Neutralized
By: Ella Hickey | October 2, 2018
What’s missing from Christian books on dating, purity, and singleness.