Carolyn McCulley is the author of two books, Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World (Moody Publishers, 2008) and Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? Trusting God with a Hope Deferred (Crossway, 2004). She is a frequent conference speaker for women's ministry events and also maintains a blog, Radical Womanhood.
I left the Ft. Worth conference thinking about something Dannah Gresh said during our panel discussion. She encouraged us to begin teaching our girls at a young age—and not to wait to guide them in forming godly values.
My favorite moment was when Dr. Dobson asked me how I handle going out in public without a date. I had totally forgotten he asked me this when we recorded these programs last April. So as I stood in the kitchen listening to this show, I found myself pausing with my coffee spoon in mid-air, wondering what I said in response.
Today is a continuation of yesterday’s conversation with Dr.Dobson. Candice Watters and I discuss some of the challenges to trusting God that single women face (such as childlessness, which is not exclusive to single women)… His faithfulness is what I have to reassure anyone who is panicking that they might end up in a similar position.
Here’s a link to the first of a three-part Focus on the Family radio series that I recorded with my friend and fellow author, Candice Watters, earlier this year. It is titled, “Singleness: Living With a Hope Deferred.” As the author of two books about marriage and family and numerous articles for single women, Candice [...]
Many people who know me as an author and women’s ministry speaker are often curious about why I have started a film company. They seem to assume there is a split focus there. Perhaps there is, but because I see media in a more holistic way, one of the reasons I started Citygate Films was [...]
So I’m watching the latest romantic comedy when I sense it coming. “Oh, no, here comes the drunk scene,” I groan aloud. Everyone else in the room looks at me, question marks popping up over their heads. “Watch,” I say, gesturing toward the TV. “This is the turning point in their relationship. She gets drunk. [...]
Lots of verbiage fills corners of the Internet and entire rows of bookstores about the “pesky problem” of an excess number of single adults these days. In this article, Carolyn McCulley addresses the question of the phenomenon of single adults in our churches.
If you and/or your local church are looking for ways to evangelize, opening your home is one of the best methods for reaching the lost. Most of us, however, are not using our homes as we should to reach our neighbors, friends, and relatives. Tragically, many of us don’t even know our neighbors. Yet through hospitality, we can meet our neighbors and be a lighthouse in spiritually dark neighborhoods.
Lydia was a single woman, head of a household consisting mainly of servants. It was probably in her house that the first church in Philippi began to meet. Perhaps it was in her house that the church gathered to take up a collection to send Paul as he endured house arrest in Rome…It’s hard to know what precisely happened in Lydia’s home, except for this fact — her first act of ministry as a believer was to offer her home and hospitality.
Of the seven qualities Paul urges Titus to have older women teach to younger women, only two are explicitly directed at married women and one to mothers. That leaves at least four for all women, married or single. The following are some ways in which God has given me the grace to apply the Titus 2 virtues in my life and genuinely enjoy my femininity as a single woman.
The Bible clearly shows that women are called to be life-bearers. Single, childless women can contribute much to the life-bearing process by supporting the parenting work of those around them. In Isaiah 54:1, a barren woman is commanded to burst into song because “more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife.”
