The issue of family integrated churches (FICs) comes up for my wife and/or I every 2-3 months, it seems. Someone mentions a resource, or a common practice, or a conference, or a book, and asks our opinion. Having published a...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on May 16, 2010 07:38 PM
Candice Watters and Carolyn McCulley are co-guests on a pair of episodes of the Focus on The Family radio program with Dr. James Dobson. Each has written a provocative and helpful book on singleness and the process toward marriage (should...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on October 13, 2009 10:31 PM
Years ago I was involved in the debate over what some call "the gift of singleness." Some tend to think of the gift of singleness as the state of singleness: to be single, is to have the gift. I wholeheartedly...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on September 12, 2009 09:08 AM
Tim Challies reviews an interesting new book by Candice Watters entitled Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help It Happen (Moody Press). I was honored to receive a copy that my wife Marni has been reading. I anticipate she'll...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on March 5, 2008 02:54 AM
Since I hardly ever write about "the gift of singleness" any more, I thought I'd mention that Lydia Brownback has recently been reflecting on the matter. I posted a comment on her second post, and today she offers these remarks....
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on August 16, 2007 11:56 PM
Boundless webzine, a division of Focus on the Family to single twentysomethings, has published an article I wrote about my own experience with "the gift of singleness" (or lack thereof). The issue has been previously discussed on this blog and...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on September 14, 2006 01:32 PM
It is becoming more common for Christian publishers to put books on-line to make them more generally available to readers. For example, God is the Gospel, by John Piper, comes with a free PDF upon purchase (if you buy it...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on September 7, 2006 12:51 AM
I was very grateful to receive a copy of Dr. Kostenberger's book God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation in the mail this week. From my brief perusal of the work thus far and my reading some of...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on September 2, 2006 11:46 AM
Dear Dr. Köstenberger, I appreciate your desire to avoid heaping judgment on singles who are fruitfully serving the Lord and enjoying what is (perhaps) merely a season of singleness. And I agree with you that many singles marry later in...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on August 26, 2006 01:01 AM
Dr. Andreas Köstenberger responds to Debbie Maken's post. (HT: Justin Taylor)...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on August 25, 2006 06:09 PM
Joining the blogosphere, Debbie Maken responds to Köstenberger regarding the "gift of singleness." Readers of the blog might anticipate that I would want to chime in more substantively, but I have a few other projects going on right now, so...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on August 24, 2006 11:48 PM
Dr. Andreas Kostenberger weighs in on the gift of singleness. He offers a somewhat more nuanced view on the gift, particularly the benefits of singleness for the kingdom of God, than he attributes to Debbie Maken. Though I've read articles...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on August 19, 2006 04:04 AM
Debbie Maken has written a book called Getting Serious about Getting Married. It is a strong critical response to the somewhat widespread view that to be single is to have "the gift of singleness." Many in the church advise...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on August 16, 2006 10:07 PM
Michael Lawrence, colleague of Mark Dever at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, pens an outstanding essay on how a man should purposefully, honorably, and in a timely fashion pursue the possibility of marriage in a relationship, rather than stalling indefinitely in...
Posted in Alex Chediak Blog on July 15, 2006 03:02 PM