Month: February 2016

The Apostle Paul’s Advice for Navigating Facebook

You don’t have to look far for warnings and admonitions regarding the use of social media, and its effects on our psyche are well-documented. Everyone’s talking about it. If you search “negative effects of social media,” the first link is to a listing of academic articles from the scholarly side of Google. From time to time, a post crosses my digital path. I click, I read, and then—inevitably—I have an anxiety-filled debate with myself about whether I should purge my Facebook account or not. When I did some poking around to write this post, I discovered that psychological researchers from Norway have even developed a scale for measuring Facebook addiction. (I won’t say whether I took their test or not…)

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Let’s get one thing straight…

This is not the blog of a girl who has it all together. I don’t write because my life makes perfect sense. I have a lot of questions and not a lot of answers.

Some of my questions stem from being single. That’s going to be a focus in my writing. I believe the American church needs a bigger vision for singles, who make up 50.2% of the overall population 16 and older in the U.S. according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (reported in 2014). The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2014 that there are 107 million unmarried people 18 and over living in the U.S. That’s quite a lot of single people. Continue reading “Let’s get one thing straight…” →