The Place of the Single Woman in the Church and In the Community of Believers

A single woman. Who is she? Is she a loner who prefers to be aloof from all personal relationships, living only for herself? Is she one who has been offered a husband, home and family and refused them? Or if not offered this, has she been left because of unavailability of men for husbands? Is she one who prefers what she calls single blessedness and a career to being tied down with a family and its obligations? Could one also call a widow a single woman-as long as she does not remarry? I can...