Now and Not Yet: Making Sense of Single Life in the Twenty-First Century: Life This Side of I Do - Softcover

In a culture that has grown unkind to marriage and the marriage-minded, Jennifer Marshall's analysis of the facts we live with, and the faith that sustains us, offers guidance and hope for young women. You may be single, but you do not have to be alone. Jennifer Marshall shows the way.
William J. Bennett, Washington Fellow-The Claremont Institute; Host-Bill Bennett's Morning in America

Jennifer Marshall rescues the dreary notion of "contentment" from passive resignation and recharges it with a robust faith in God that results in vigorous, purposeful living.... Singles and non-singles alike will find this brand of contented living liberating, energizing, and fulfilling.
Carolyn Custis James, author of When Life and Beliefs Collide and Lost Women of the Bible

If we value marriage, we should value and mentor those among us who want to get there but are not there yet. In Now and Not Yet, her faith-and-research-based book, Jennifer Marshall not only brings to light this unaddressed reality of modern life, but gives her fellow single traditional women the pep talk they need. Post-twenties singleness can be a lonely time for the marriage-minded; Jennifer Marshall has made it less so.
Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of the National Review Online

Jennifer Marshall has a fresh, positive, God-centered perspective on singleness as one of the many callings we live by in the Christian life. Now and Not Yet is about much more than marital status; it is about loving and serving Jesus in the space between the way things are and the way we expect them to be. Marshall is honest about life's struggles and open to the legitimate desire to be married during what she calls "the unexpected in-between." What she writes is full of biblical and practical wisdom for pursuing single-minded devotion to God and finding joyful contentment in His unique plan for your life.
Philip Graham Ryken, author of The Message of Salvation and Ryken's Bible Handbook; senior minister, Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

With sensitivity and a sharp-edged knowledge of God's Word, Jennifer Marshall reveals the sweet and satisfying answer to our deepest longings, helping us all-whether married or single-find true pleasure in God. Thank you, Jennifer, for shining so much light on an oft-troubling topic.
Joni Eareckson Tada, JAF International Disability Center

In her insightful and hopeful meditation on contemporary singlehood, Jennifer Marshall breaks through the tired stereotypes of the single woman as desperate for marriage or obsessed with career. She makes the compelling case that "Christian, single, and content" is not an oxymoron but another pathway for women to fulfill God's calling for their lives. This book is essential reading not only for single women of all ages but for their mothers, fathers, friends, and faith communities.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, author of The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitment to Marriage and Family and Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman; co-director, National Marriage Project, Rutgers

The Thinking Woman's Guide Through Singledom You're looking for answers, but you're stuck between now and not yet . Thanks to the "milepost mindset," taught from Kindergarten through high school, you continually look forward to the next big thing (in school, just being in the next grade!). Then, when Destination Marriage looms as the next milepost, it's more than a little disorienting to detour into prolonged singleness. But where autopilot ends, the pilgrimage begins. Jennifer Marshall offers rich lessons from women who are on that pilgrimage, observations about today's cultural landscape, and guidance for redeeming this unexpected time between now and the not yet for which you hope. Claim God's purpose and direction for your life...even when there's not a milepost in sight.