What is the absolute hardest thing about being a single Christian? Well – if we all had to sum it up collectively, we’d probably have to go with, “Um… being single?” There are likely actually hundreds of answers to that question, dependent on age, gender, culture, personality, and other circumstances; even in my own life,…
There have been a lot of very funny posts written over the past couple of years about some of the terrible things married people have said to their single friends (most of the ones I’ve read have been posted on Stuff Christians Like – because Jon Acuff is awesome like that). This may not be one…
I’ve read a lot of books about being single over the past twenty years. I’ve been a Lady In Waiting, and I Kissed Dating Good-bye with everyone else in the 90s (although somehow most of them managed to get married anyway). I’ve thought a lot about Passion and Purity, and wondered: If Men Are Like Buses, Then…
A few years ago, I was out for dinner with some friends, and I saw a woman dining alone at a candlelit table by the window, with a glass of wine and a book she was obviously enjoying. And I thought, that’s brilliant. I never would’ve thought to do it – taking a book to a…
This post is part of January’s syncroblog on “New Beginnings.” Be sure to check out the link list at the end of this post for more great content on this topic. I didn’t think I was going to have a word this year. I don’t know that I’ll succeed in blogging about it any more…
