Celebrating Singleness: Episode 921
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Joy and purpose in singleness, plus a single guy’s take on being unmarried, and is it ever time to give up on marriage completely?
Featured musical artist: James Peden
Roundtable: What to Love About Being Single
Singleness isn’t a death sentence. The Bible considers singleness a noble calling, so whether you’re content as a single or you’re praying for a mate, use your single season to grow, serve, build relationships, learn and embrace adventure. In honor of National Singles Week, our guests, all single, share their best stories and advice for embracing singleness with confidence and joy — and taking time to enjoy the ride.
Culture: Making the Most of Singleness
Bob Wheatley was a pro baseball player. He’s now a brand strategist, author, speaker — and single guy. He recently wrote a book about navigating life as an unmarried man in his early 30s, and what it looks like to walk in faithfulness today while hoping for marriage in the future. Bob uses everything from the words of Paul to lessons from his own life to outline the advantages of singleness, the need for accountability and friendship, and the blessings of trusting God with your single season.
Single-Minded: Finding Purpose & Strength in Your Season of Singleness
Inbox: Is It Time to Become a Nun?
Our listener is discouraged and wants to know if she should give up on marriage and consign herself to a nunnery. Lisa Anderson weighs in.
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| 0:30.1 | Boundless Show. |
| 0:44.8 | Thank you. Well, hey, friends, welcome to this week's episode of The Baumless Show. |
| 0:47.1 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:51.7 | We are actually in National Singles Week. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm not going to say this is the biggest week of the year for us at Balmas. That sounds kind of weird. But we do like to give a nod to it because so many of you in |
| 1:01.3 | our audience, by virtue of being maybe in your 20s or your 30s, are still single. In fact, |
| 1:06.6 | 50% of the U.S. adult population is currently single or single again. And so we want to make |
| 1:12.9 | sure that we recognize that and acknowledge that in scripture, there is a lot of great things |
| 1:19.4 | to be said about singleness. And so we want to celebrate that. And certainly, well, I guess I'm |
| 1:25.4 | just doing my own segment of the show here, because I'm just not going to stop talking. |
| 1:30.3 | Certainly, if you are single and you are angry or bitter or you think your life is over, that's not a great place to be. |
| 1:37.1 | But if you were single and you were trusting God, even if in the future you want to be married, well, then that is a great place to be. |
| 1:43.5 | And so we have got a great show ahead for you. First up, later on in the future you want to be married, well, then that is a great place to be. And so we have got |
| 1:44.4 | a great show ahead for you. First up, later on in the show, speaking of my little soapbox there, |
| 1:52.4 | our question from a listener is, when do I give up on love and consign myself to a nunnery? |
| 1:58.4 | So, shockingly, I'm going to answer that question because, you know, maybe it's |
| 2:03.7 | time for me to hit the nunnery. We'll see. But I'm going to share from my own experience for that. |
| 2:08.2 | And then for our culture segment, Bob Wheatley is here with his new book, Single-minded, |
| 2:13.0 | finding purpose and strength in your season of singleness. So if you are struggling with that very thing, |
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