Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, Professor of Christian Apologetics at Talbot School

Theology Biola University. We're here today with our guest Dr. Christina Hitchcock who is

professor of theology at the University of Sioux Falls, PhD in theology from

the University of Aberdeen, and the author of a terrific new book on singleness that I

want to talk about today. So Christina, thank you so much for being with us and

particularly for writing the book that you did on this really timely subject.

Well thank you it's my pleasure to be here.

Well so let me ask maybe the obvious question to start with you're married and you have

kids I do I have two kids two kids so it seems like the the the singleness ship is sailed so to speak.

Yes.

But what made it what motivated you to write this book on singleness and tell us a little bit about why that subject is so

important to you. Well I got married a little later at least for kind of the

evangelical subculture it was later I wasn't, I got married when I was 30. And so I had about eight

years as an adult, a single adult in the church from when I graduated from college until when I got

married. And that was kind of a revelation for me in a lot of

ways, both about the church but also about myself and my own expectations and where those

expectations had come from, that I just had a very strong expectation that of

course I would get married and of course I would get married fairly young and of

course I would have a bunch of kids and and then when that didn't happen, I didn't know what to make of that.

I wasn't sure how to envision my life, especially I think as a Christian, and perhaps

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