I really like Gina Dalfonzo's work.Gina, if you don't already know, hosts two excellent blogs (The Point and Dickensblog) as well as writing for Chuck Colson's BreakPoint radio program and other publications. She is, as the occasion calls for it, funny or pensive or challenging -- but always winsome and wise.
But Gina has just written one of her best in The Good Christian Girl: A Fable (What heeding a decade and a half of dating advice can mean.) It is a very poignant essay, one that is written with tremendous empathy and which elicits the same from its readers. And even though I am a man blessed with a long and wonderful marriage (perhaps because of that), I was deeply moved by the plight of the fable's unhappily single heroine.
There is gentle correction in this compelling story (especially to those whose advice to Christian singles has been too broadly proscriptive or devoid of practical guidance) but there is gentle understanding and encouragement too.
Do check it out over here at Christianity Today. And let it be a stimulant to better, more sensitively befriend the singles you know.
