The Single Truth: Challenging the Misconceptions of Singleness with God's Consuming Truth

by Lori Smith

The Single Truth

If you are single and struggling with its attendant "stigma," The Single Truth offers you God's liberating truths about singleness. Lori Smith clears away the fog and lies surrounding singleness and challenges you to live a full life and to see your singleness as a part of God's good plan. She powerfully affirms that:

You are deeply loved by God.
Marriage isn't better or worse—it's different.
You have no need to be ashamed about your singleness.
You can be content.

Genres: Christian

125 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Lori Smith is the author of The Jane Austen Guide to Life, A Walk with Jane Austen, and The Single Truth. She is an adorer of Jane Austen and a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She feels connections to Austen on many levels—as a writer, a single woman, an Anglican, and as someone struggling with a mysterious chronic illness. She spent a month in England tracing Austen’s life before writing A Walk with Jane Austen, which received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and the Jane Austen Regency World Award for best nonfiction.

Smith’s writing has also appeared in Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Beliefnet.com, Skirt! and Today’s Christian Woman.

Lori lives in Northern Virginia with her sweet but stubborn English lab, Bess. Visit her online at www.writerlorismith.com or at the Jane Austen Quotes blog, www.austenquotes.com.

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book definitely had a lot of good things to say about singleness. There were some things I disagreed with, but overall, it was a pretty good book. Being single and 33, there isn't much I haven't heard about singleness at this point....haha. But it did give me a couple of things to think about!

[Miss Lily · Rating 2 out of 5]

A lot of anecdotes from married women, basically a mixture of positive and negative comments about marriage life, and the conclusion is the common there's nothing specially blessed about being single or married, as life is how a person make of it.. to obey God the best we can regardless of whether we are single or married. Same conclusion.
The one point I found interesting is a brief discussion about beware when a single person grows older, the idea of remaining chaste may weaken, because younger singles feeling the incentive to be celibate for the ultimate joy after marriage will stay away from complications of sex before marriage, but older single people who feel there's a lack of prospect of ever marrying may have weaker resistance to exploring promiscuity.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very deep, but has some good points. Good Quotes- "Singleness isn't the school for the biblically inept. Marriage is not a reward for spiritual maturity." and "Married life isn't necessarily better or worse(though it can be both). It's just different, with different blessings and different challenges."

[Sharla · Rating 2 out of 5]

As another reader said, not very deep. Quoted a lot of other sources. Couldn't get through the book.