Singles
The Abstinent Vampire Attraction
Vampires aside, last year’s block-buster movie, Twilight, has provoked some interesting research. New research from the University of Missouri shows that the reason teenage girls have fallen hard for the Twilight book and film series has to do with its portrayal of a traditional, abstinent romantic relationship. In the series, vampire Edward Cullen doesn’t want [...]
3Dec2009 | Mary Kassian | 11 comments | Continued
Living with a Hope Deferred – Part 3
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.
12Nov2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
Living With a Hope Deferred – Part 2
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.
11Nov2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
Living with a Hope Deferred – Part 1
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 [...]
10Nov2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
Radiant Singleness – Krissy’s Story
Even if He never brought a man into her life, Krissy resolved to remain fully set-apart for Him. Jesus Christ, not the hope of an earthly romance, was the focus of her existence and the source of her fulfillment. Even without an earthly love story, her Heavenly Prince was more than enough. She wasn’t living for guys. She wasn’t living for an earthly romance. She was living for Him.
18Jun2009 | Leslie Ludy | 15 comments | Continued
Surplus of Singles
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.
9Jun2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 2 comments | Continued
Home, Sweet Mission Field (for singles)
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.
20May2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
Singular Hospitality
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.
11May2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 1 comment | Continued
Authentic Beauty
In a culture that mocks our longing for tender romance, in a world where fairy tales never seem to come true – do young women dare hope for more? For every young woman asking that question, this book is an invitation to begin a never-ending love story with the Prince of her dreams. According to Ludy, Authentic Beauty is living a life fully set- apart for Him.
8May2009 | Mary Kassian | 0 comments | Continued
Single & Fully Feminine
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.
30Apr2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 2 comments | Continued
Enlarging Your Tent (for Singles)
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.”
23Apr2009 | Carolyn McCulley | 0 comments | Continued
The Modesty of Personal Restraint
As the spring season blooms, talk about modesty heats up in Christian conversation as fast as the weather. Bloggers, radio hosts, and the rest of us lament the shorter hemlines, deeper necklines, exposed bellies, and bare bottoms in thong bikinis at the neighborhood swim club. But immodesty deals with a lot more than revealing too much skin. We are just as prone—if not more so—to overexpose what’s under our skin.
15Apr2009 | Guest Author | 0 comments | Continued
Curse of the Good Girl
The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment
Authentic Beauty
Girls Gone Skank
Thrill of the Chaste
Re-imagining God in the Shack
