In many of our churches, there's an unspoken script: grow up, find someone, get married, have kids. And if that doesn't happen - or hasn't happened yet - it can leave people quietly wondering: Is there something wrong with me? Is this just a waiting room?

Dr Dani Treweek has spent over a decade thinking, writing, and living these questions. In this episode of Insight with Karl Faase, she shares her journey of growing up in Sydney's eastern suburbs, studying at Moore Theological College, and completing a PhD that became the book The Meaning of Singleness.

Along the way, she's wrestled personally and academically with what it truly means to be single in the Christian life.

Whether you're single, married, widowed, divorced, or leading a church community, this conversation has something important to offer. As Dani shares, the Bible's vision for singleness is far more expansive and far more hopeful than most of us have been taught.

Key Moments and Takeaways:

- The "disenfranchised grief" of singleness - mourning something you've never had

- The moment in a Moore College ethics lecture that changed how Dani read the Bible

- What Jesus's words in Matthew 22 reveal about the eternal significance of singleness

- How the Reformation accidentally devalued singleness in Protestant churches

- The problems with dating apps and the deeper disembodiment crisis behind them

- What Paul actually means (and doesn't mean) by the so-called "gift of singleness"

- Why the church needs its single members as much as single members need the church 

Resources mentioned:

The Meaning of Singleness — Dani Treweek (IVP Academic)

Single Ever After — Dani Treweek (IVP)

Cross Related Ministry

"On Sitting Alone in Church" — article by Dani Treweek 

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