

What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone
"In the two years since then, I’ve often thought about Ann and the important role she played in our lives. She was much more than what...


‘Couldn’t We Just Be Friends?’
"Paradoxically, it is friendship that offers us the real route to the pleasures that Romanticism associates with love. That this sounds...


I Am Not Disgusting. I Am Not Alone. I Am Redeemed.
"Growing up in a home where singleness was portrayed as bad, I never understood that celibacy could actually be beautiful. The stories...


How Celibacy Can Fulfill Your Sexuality
"It means singleness, like marriage, has a unique way of testifying to the gospel of grace. Jesus said there will be no marriage in the...


Turning 40 While Single and Childless
I was 28 years old the first time someone called me “barren.” At a book club hosted by one of my friends, I met a 22-year-old graduate...


FAMILY CHAT: THE FRIENDSHIPS THAT SURVIVE
"We encourage each other to live with conviction, honesty, integrity, and vulnerability. We trust that the others in our circle of...


Defend the City: A Call to Single Men
"We haven’t yet grasped the nature of the fight against lust if we think only in terms of individual skirmishes. Each act of disobedience...


What’s a Body to Do? The Place of Beauty and the Body in Non-Sexual Loves
"When I notice a person’s beauty, therefore, I’m recalling, in the very act of noticing, the most ancient truth about her or him. I’m...


St. Gregory of Nazianzus: Two bodies, but a single spirit
"Such was the prelude to our friends hip, the kindling of that flame that was to bind us together. In this way we began to feel affection...


How the Church Can Encourage Singles
When I was studying at DTS, I joined the choir at my church. That group provided a wonderful community, as the members invited me to...







