Notes on Love

Journalist Lauren Windle turns her attention to dating within Christian communities, looking at both its frustrations and its moments of joy. She observes that recent decades have done a great deal to free single adults in their twenties and thirties, yet church life can still leave them fielding nosy questions about when they will finally find their other half, or hearing that they should protect their hearts from even a casual coffee date.

Rather than repeating the usual clichés or the sense of second-rate standing that tends to cling to singles, Windle shares personal stories that embrace single life as it really is, with its comedy, untidiness and low moments all mixed together. The result is candid and kind, and it makes room for the reader's own experience.

The book is written for anyone who has found dating in church difficult, or who has wondered how to live as a single Christian and found no simple answer. Whether you are male or female, single, in a relationship, or somewhere between, it is meant to remind you that you are not alone.