I was out to dinner with three of my (single guy) friends awhile ago, and (as inevitably seems to happen in groups of single people) The Subject came up. “There’s this girl…” They’d been spending a lot of time together; he was pretty sure she was into him; he really just wanted to be friends….
We’ve talked about what not to say to your single friends – and knowing what not to say is certainly helpful – but what do we say instead? How do we learn from stories like Sara’s, and create a culture within the church that doesn’t make single people feel like second-class citizens? You’ll notice that…
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…
— 1 — There is so much on my heart and mind tonight. It has been such a complex and full week. So first things first: the joy. On Monday, I’d planned to swing by a coffee shop just to pick something up from a friend. I ended up staying an hour and a half,…
