The history of Christian celibacy is more complicated than we’d like to think. Lately, Christians have cast their minds and social media musings back to the early church on the topics of singleness ...

But in Scripture, church history, and singles’ own accounts of their lives, it’s usually not a good thing, either. Is it a sin to be single? To a modern ear, the question can sound bizarre—but in many ...

[Editor’s Note: Jana Bennett is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Dayton, a Catholic institution affiliated with the Marianist order. Aside from teaching and raising her ...

The Meaning of Singleness (IVP Academic) by Danielle Treweek has been named the 2024 Australian Christian Book of the Year. Treweek is the founding director of the Single Minded Ministry and an ...

More than half of Americans (54%) between ages 18 and 49 are single, but less than a quarter of church-goers fall into this group, according to a report from Barna Trends. In addition to dropping ...