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Dating Is Broken

Dating Is Broken

What is life for? If the answer is only our own self-actualization, there is no better to strive for or worse to avoid. But, if the answer is found in the goodness of creation and the ultimate purposes of God’s kingdom, dating has a context and a purpose, as does marriage, work, sex, friendship, procreation, and yes, singleness.

Jacki Hill Perry Warns Single Christians against Dating Non-Believers

Jacki Hill Perry Warns Single Christians against Dating Non-Believers

In a recent episode of the podcast, 30 Minutes with The Perrys, she discussed with her husband Preston Perry concerning the struggles Christians have while they are single, including loneliness.

3 Things I Wish I Knew about Dating Besides 'Don't Have Sex'

3 Things I Wish I Knew about Dating Besides 'Don't Have Sex'

I am 27, dating for the first time in the Kingdom, and if I could boil down the relationship advice I received before I started dating, it would be this: "Don't have sex before you're married." And I'm not saying that purity isn't essential. But I am saying that there is so much more to healthy relationships other than physical purity. And now that I've been dating a wonderful man for 11 months and have picked up a thing or two in the mess of figuring it out on our own, I want to draw our attention to 3 things that I wish I was taught about dating, besides purity:

Dating Apps or the Church

Dating Apps or the Church

What if the church has a role to play in creating contexts for relational connections, even romantic ones? What if the current relationship dearth being filled by apps could be filled by Christian matchmaking communities instead?