by Mary B Safrit | May 11, 2022 | Singleness
On a Friday, I sat at my computer, doing my last checks. Email, website updates, weekly to-dos. Was there anything I was forgetting? It was 5:15. Now that it is getting darker earlier, I try to wrap up in time for an evening walk beginning at 5:30. I opened my website...
by Mary B Safrit | Apr 27, 2022 | Singleness
It’s wedding season! You know what that means. Time to feel an uncomfortable mix of weird emotions!! When you’re single and weddings abound, it can be a bit of a mixed bag, emotionally speaking. On the one hand, you’re happy for your friends who are getting married....
by Mary B Safrit | Dec 23, 2021 | Singleness
This past September on Instagram, Devi Abraham asked me to share some thoughts on how married people can support singles. Devi co-hosts a podcast called Where Do We Go From Here, on which they talk about purity culture, its effects on Christians, and how to move...
by Mary B Safrit | Dec 9, 2021 | Mental Health, Singleness
It was mid-March. I recently came out of a professional sprint–moderating and running logistics for a virtual event series called From the Beauty Shop to the Pew, wrapping up the fifth season of my podcast, and releasing my ebook The Single Christian’s Church...
by Mary B Safrit | Dec 2, 2021 | Singleness
Around these parts, we talk about a lot of things pertaining to people who are single and also Christian. We talk about relational well-being, mental health, and calling. We also talk about the reality of being single in a culture low to high key obsessed with...
by Mary B Safrit | Nov 4, 2021 | Singleness
Have you ever been annoyed that, as someone who is single, there are some hard things you can’t defer? That’s probably true for everyone in some way, but for us singles, there are some decisions we have to make and hard conversations we have to have because no one...
