New Releases by Kate Wharton

COVID-19 has transformed our everyday lives. It’s as if another world has arrived in the blink of an eye. Yet life is not on pause. We still need to live. The pandemic, like any other time, is a moment both of opportunity as well as challenge. Healthy Faith in the Coronavirus Crisis is a briefing on how to thrive in a world of restrictions. Twenty leading Christian thinkers have come together to help you begin to navigate this strange reality. Each contributor writes on their area of expertise, and topics covered include prayer, loneliness, work, singleness, marriage, parenting, grief, death, imagination, conversations, humour, and much more. They offer practical advice as well as helpful perspective from Scripture. This is an essential resource for anyone looking to cultivate a healthy faith which infuses all areas of life during this disorienting time.

The ''couples culture'' is everywhere: church family events, valentine’s day, cinema, popular music and even supermarket offers. Being single can often mean you are singled-out. But Kate wants to encourage Christians, holding singleness up as a unique opportunity for holiness, personal development and Christian living. In her book, Kate tackles the common challenges many face when reconciling their relational choices: - Issues of Identity: church roles, social invitations and being whole without an ''other half'' - Finance: learning to live alone when it''s cheaper to live with others - Sexual Pressure: staying pure, in thinking as well as action - Friendship: how to be ''just friends'' with the opposite sex - Calling: when the cost of obedience is to stay single - Divorce or Bereavement: learning to be single again "When we are sold out for God," she says, "then life will be the very best that it can be - whether married or single, with children or without - because we will be on our way to becoming who we were created to be."

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