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Jan. 5 — When 18 single adults get together for their weekly Wednesday night meeting at Christ Church United in Lowell, Mass., they abide by one strict rule: thou shalt not date anyone in the group. 'It's a place for working through your own issues,' says the Rev. Virginia McDaniel, pastor of the church. 'It's not a place to get matched up.' In other words, it's not a place to view singleness as a problem that the church needs to solve by encouraging marriage. Being single is increasingly seen as a condition to be accepted, whether as a temporary challenge or a lifelong blessing, in a religious landscape where singles groups in churches are being transformed. Across the nation, religious communities of varied stripes are taking steps to welcome the growing the number adults who have chosen — at least for now — not to marry....
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