Christa Ann Banister
Christa Ann Banister of St. Paul, Minn., drew on her experiences with single life for her 2007 novel Around the World in 80 Dates: Confessions of a Christian Serial Dater.
Resources in: English
Monique Moultrie
Monique Moultrie is a professor of religious studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta, who specializes in women/gender studies, African-American studies and sexuality – specifically on African-American single Christian women. She says more black women are single – and likely to stay that way – than any other population.
“Love and Marriage”
Read the results of a 2013 Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends survey on how Americans view marriage.
“‘Must love God’–Can Catholics find their soul mates in cyberspace?”
Read a July 13, 2007, U.S. Catholic story about Catholics and online dating.
“To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered”
Read an Oct. 15, 2006, New York Times article about married couples becoming a minority among U.S. households.
“Protestants, Feminists, and the Virgin”
Read a January 7, 2011, column at the website of First Things that rounds up a number of recent books and articles on views of the Virgin Mary among Protestants.
“Claims of apparitions of Mary met with skepticism, book shows”
A Dec. 16 Catholic News Service story looks at a new book released at the Vatican that “shows how the very idea of such apparitions has been met with skepticism and preoccupation within the church, from early Christian times to the present.” In fact, as few as nine of the 2,400 recorded Marian apparitions have been approved […]
“Bishop says Mary appeared in Wisconsin, but who can say for sure?”
Read a Religion News Service story on the newly approved Mary apparition.
“Do Whatever He Tells You: The BVM”
Read the statement on the Virgin Mary from Evangelicals and Catholics Together, published in November 2009 in First Things.