I haven't posted on here in a good while, but there's a great deal of valuable material out there relevant to this blog, and so I'll try and point people towards them more frequently from now on.
Here's the opening of a piece about singles in the church, which I think is worth considering, especially considering the demographics.
In the movie Bridget Jones, Bridget is having dinner with some
pretentious married people. One of them says to her “Bridget, why do
you think there are so many people over thirty and single these days?”
Bridget looks her straight in the face and says “Well, I guess it
doesn’t hurt that we have scales under our clothes.”
We singles often feel like we have scales under our clothes in our
churches. Not a gross disfigurement that makes everyone stare. Not an
outward, in your face prejudice that is thrown at us. But something more
subtle. Something that makes us feel like even though we look pretty
normal on the outside, there is quite possibly something wrong with us
underneath the surface.
Read the rest here - Singles and the Church: why it sucks to be unintentionally overlooked
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