Two Right Answers

I just read this secular article entitled, The Power of Being Single. Worth a read. Take this for example:

"the language of singleness is really the language of couples who are pitying single people"

Their diagnosis of marriage's misuse is pretty accurate, in my opinion. But it lacks a cogent vision for what singleness is good for. Instead, the supposed benefits of singleness seem to be largely borrowed from those (mistakenly) held out for marriage: self-legitimisation, maximising my own happiness, etc.

For what it's worth, Tim Keller's The Meaning of Marriage and Andrew Cameron's Joined Up Life each make a far more satisfying account of both Singleness and Marriage, and why "there’s such a thing as two right answers", as Cameron charmingly puts it (Joined Up Life, 236).

My own stuff on Singleness you'll find here.