Solo Planet: How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling

As a single man, I found myself deeply cared for as I read Solo Planet. In many circles these things are not often seen or approached well. I think this book was written for that set of followers like myself who feel a calling to righteous singleness, and not just as a holding pattern for marriage. I think discipleship on this level can really make a difference in the global church, as people want to find support as single followers but also want to be all in for the Kingdom and all the opportunities that are in front of us. This book does a good job of covering a wide variety of cultural differences and related hardships that Christian singles face. I was most impressed. I feel a lot of grief about this personally, and reading the stories within made me feel seen and appreciated.

Anna Broadway has written an astonishingly broad-ranging analysis of Christian single life that is at once astutely sociological, deeply personal, sincerely prayerful, and boldly ecumenical. It is a mature achievement that deserves serious attention from clergy and lay leaders alike.

Anna Broadway has written an astonishingly broad-ranging analysis. A smart, convicting book whose stories from across the globe on singles and their lives throw open a welcoming invitation to churches and believers to embrace the unmarried with joy, acceptance, warmth, and love. Anna Broadway’s tour de force of worldwide research is sure to help God’s Kingdom reimagine a more integrated church with room on every pew—and at every table

— for all. Brave, exciting, and worthy of attention and action. May many read and heed.

Anna Broadway asks the hard questions of Christian singleness: How can you thrive as a single when you have not chosen it? How do you deal with desire and longing? Through an incredible journey across the globe, she interviews Christian singles on six continents. With their voices and her sensitive insight, she guides us on a journey of understanding. The journey leads us to our core—God and His community

— which brings renewal and hope. Highly recommended.

I have watched Anna Broadway undertake this labor of love, Solo Planet, over the course of her long journey across the globe, into strangers’ homes, and inside gatherings of local congregations near and far. In this culmination of that journey, readers will find a holistic, faithful, probing, and challenging call for all Christians to love one another better as brothers and sisters, regardless of marital status. Those called to minister “solo” are no less a part of the family of God, and Solo Planet offers a holistic and helpful approach to enacting this truth.

Every single Christian is single for at least some season—if not all

— of their life. So how can the church live up to the biblical call to truly be God’s family of married and single people alike? Drawing on a vast array of voices, Anna Broadway helps us see both the struggles and the victories of the global church in this area while casting a vision for what it means to be the family of God in everyday life. This is a valuable work of practical theology for the church today!