What has covid revealed about singleness in our churches?

I joined Lorinda Pretorius (a Christian Sexologist in South Africa and host of the Chasing Something Podcast) for a conversation about singleness and intimacy.

At one point, we explored how the pandemic has been particularly painful for single Christians and highlighted churches' decades-long struggle to offer single people family in the body of Christ.

Social distancing measures forced Christians to choose a limited number of people for their covid-bubbles. Many singles found themselves living alone and left out of church family covid-bubbles.

No amount of video calls could make up for the lack of in-person, physically-embodied relationship—reminding Christians why it's important that God gives us bodies in this life & the life to come.

Plus, being left out of church family covid-bubbles revealed revealed the cost of not being a priority: single Christians awakened to their need to be prioritized.

I pray single people don't forget our need for committed, in-person friendship. I pray we are willing to take culturally-inconvenient steps to find lifelong, lived-in human family with other Christians.

Watch the recording at https://vimeo.com/655922949?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=46230760