Practical Help for the Nitty-Gritty of Your Life
The Single Christian's Church Survival Guide:
How to Navigate Church Culture and Conversations Without Losing Your Mind
This isn’t a book about how to get un-single. This is a book about how to navigate a culture obsessed with marriage as a human who is not married. From the unwanted advice about our relationship status to the unspoken pressures of singleness, it can feel like no one knows what to do with us. These experiences are so common, we might start to wonder if we’re the weird ones.
The Single Christian’s Church Survival Guide was created by MaryB. Safrit, an actual single person, for single Christians who would like everyone to calm down about their singleness, please and thank you. Each chapter breaks down a common scenario, why it’s weird, and contextual options on how to respond. It also includes reflection questions and space to noodle on response strategies. MaryB. is passionate about filling the gap between what the church offers and what single Christians need. She wrote this book to empower you to respond, not just react, to these situations.
What kinds of situations?
You strike up a conversation with someone of another gender and they immediately bring up their spouse.
Dealing with touch deprivation.
When someone says marriage is the best way to become like Jesus.
“I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding someone.”
Less overt questions like whether long-term singleness is unnatural.
And more!
If you’re done accepting the same tired interactions that leave you discouraged and disempowered, read this book now!
We Don’t Want The Bouquet (digital download)
Weddings can be weird when you’re single.
Yes, weddings are festive celebrations of love and an opportunity to witness a covenant between two people we (presumably) care about. Weddings can be fun and complicated. Especially for us single folks.
There’s a lot to weigh and wade through. Do you know anyone going who might be willing to split a rental car? Will there be a boat load of annoying clichés that make marriage out to be God’s ultimate goal for every human person? Do we have time to rest from all the festivities before resuming our regular life responsibilities? What makes things even more derpy is the fact that we feel like we aren’t supposed to have complicated feelings.
We Don’t Want The Bouquet will help you prep for everything cringy, upsetting, and amazing about a wedding. It’s loaded with tips and reflective questions that will walk you through things— before, during, and after. It’s fun. It’s snappy. And most importantly, it means you don’t have to walk through all this alone.
If you’re a single Christian tired of plodding through wedding prep all by your onesie, this guide is for you.
