Today’s churches spend so much time exalting marriage that single people can start to feel like they are second-class Christians or that they have missed the mark with their lives. Is it a sin to be single? Is singleness a curse or a punishment? If a Christian stays single, is he or she destined to a lonely, unfulfilling, or miserable life? What encouraging truths do we uncover in the Bible on the subject of singleness? (Straight Talk, part 2)