You don’t have to be among Christian single women very long to hear one common refrain: “We want to be pursued”—followed close on the heels by “Why won’t the guys ask us out?” As I sifted through the survey data for my book Where Have All the Good Men Gone? and started tallying responses by women, this one topic took up so much space, literally, that it demanded a leading position in the book.

 

Today many would argue that women enjoy the right, even the freedom, to pursue men if they choose without ruffling any societal feathers. A woman can be the first one to call a guy she’s just met. She can flirt with him via email. She can even ask him out on a date. And all the secular women’s magazines will applaud her for her gutsy behavior. Yet almost every woman surveyed for this book expressed...READ MORE

 

Jennifer Steadham and Sean Prather* were like a lot of students on the Northwest Christian College campus: in love and excited about the future.

 

“We were both youth ministry majors,” Jennifer says. “It looked like we were heading in the same direction. We were talking about being in ministry together.”

 

The couple’s enthusiasm for each other and their vision of a life…READ MORE

There's a Hooters in my town, and I struggle each time I pass by. I can hardly see in. It's at a busy corner at the entrance of town and so unless I slow down to a crawl...READ MORE