If your church is like most churches, around a third of the people sitting in the congregation on any given Sunday are single. Some have never married; others are widows, widowers or divorcees. What’s it like being single and Christian? How can we think biblically about the subject? And how can churches minister more effectively to the many single people in their midst?

We speak to Single Minded Conference Chair Dani Treweek about how we can better love and pastor the single members of our church family?What are the particular pastoral issues that singles face? How can we encourage single Christians in their gospel maturity, contentment and service?

s sex an essential element of a fulfilled and satisfied life? Is it a necessary marker of one’s graduation from childhood to adulthood? Does the call to sexual purity place unfair and unrealistic demands on the single Christian? Does the unmarried person require a special spiritual gift to not give in to their sexual desires?

Statistics show that one in three people in our churches are single. And yet many of our church communities tend to make singles feel “singled out”—that is, we’ve so normalised marriage and children that we’ve made many single men and women feel out of place. In this episode, Dani Treweek helps us see a richer theological vision for singleness—one that shows us what life will be like for all Christians in the future.

Christian singleness is a case of either choice, or circumstance. Or is it? Could it be that taking the time to consider our perspective about singleness and single Christians might help us to understand the importance of being more nuanced in our thinking about it, and about them?

For conservative Christians, sex is only OK between a married husband and wife. But what happens if you don't fit inside that box? In the first episode of Faith & Fornication, a three-part series, we meet a queer Christian, a young Catholic who overcame sexual addictions, and a celibate deacon, who has written her PhD on singleness and the Church.

Following our recent livestreamed event on the topic of “Can we live without sex?”, many questions around the subject were raised. In this special episode, we welcome back our guest speakers, Dani Treweek and Chris Thomson, to answer some practical questions related to living without sex—including, “Is it wrong to desire sex and marriage if you’re single?”, “Why would God give us such strong desires for sex without also giving us a spouse?” and “If sex isn’t ultimate, is it okay to have a sexless marriage?”

For many singles, Christmas and January is a very difficult and challenging time of year. A time to be endured rather than a time to be enjoyed. But there are things that as church leaders we can do to be a blessing to our single friends

Singles often feel marginalised in terms of their own personal identity and purpose. But the reality on the ground is that this very often translates into a struggle for them to understand their own place of belonging within their individual church communities.