If you’ve listened to any of my recent podcast and website interviews, you’ve probably heard me encourage people to read Solo Planet: How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling] with friends. The reason? The best thing this book could possibly do in your life is strengthen and deepen some of your existing relationships.

In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General issued the report Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation and launched a whole section of resources. Solo Planet helps readers, single and married alike, look at how day-to-day concerns from meals to housing can deepen our community.

As reviewer Alexandra DeSanctic Marr writes for the Acton Institute: “Even the married need more social structure and connection than the relationships within their homes. How can we make room for those in our midst who are not immediately connected to us by familial bonds or the relationships that flow naturally from marriage and parenthood? Broadway’s work suggests that a renewed effort to answer that question might not only enable Christian churches to better serve their single members but also might contribute to easing the broader loneliness from which so many around us suffer.”

Goodreads reviewers attest that reading Solo Planet with others has yielded "fruitful conversations." To thank you for reading the book with others this summer, I'm doing some special giveaways. Learn how to participate.