Commentators in the earlier Christian tradition recognized the key New Testament passages discussed in this chapter as proffering the makings of a…
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In the final chapter of The Meaning of Singleness, I write: “What I have proposed herein is only the beginning of a (re)discovery of singleness…
In this light, virginity began to take on great theological significance as that which declined to facilitate a seemingly endless cycle of birth, life…
A bit of a different post from me today. One containing just a few announcements. 1. Pre-order a copy of my book at 30% off + free US shipping (during…
So exists a palpable tension between the predominantly negative perception of the unmarried life discussed in the previous chapter, and certain biblical…
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You know something is amiss when the woman who has a doctorate in singleness is concerned that we’re not valuing marriage highly enough. And yet, here…
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Contemporary secular society holds that it is only in discovering and disclosing our innermost sexual inclinations, attractions, desires, actions, and…

February 2023

Given this historical analysis, it is unsurprising that the contemporary Christian discourse typically regards the unmarried form of life as…
By the close of the eighteenth century, Britain’s unmarried, and particularly her never-married women, had truly become problematic and even…
If you yourself are married then there is a chance you may have missed that subtle distinction. But I can assure you very few of us singles missed it…
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"In this book I hope to equip you to look with fresh eyes at the intelligibility of God’s purposes for singleness in the lives of his people, and so…
We ought to be slow to conclude that there is one “timelessly right” expression of exactly what the household is, has always been and is always meant to…