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Christian dating advice without the polish.
Looking For The Middle talks through Christian dating with the looseness of friends sorting it out after church. Bethany and Dalton move from jokes and life updates into practical questions about singleness, first dates, profiles, and community advice.
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Looking For The Middle is a Christian dating advice show shaped by friendship, church culture, and a lot of conversational detours. It does not sound like a formal class. It sounds like people who know each other well trying to answer the questions single Christians actually ask when advice gets vague, awkward, or too simple. Bethany and Dalton often begin with jokes, life updates, weather, movies, travel, or housekeeping. Then the conversation gradually finds the real subject. That subject might be online dating photos, a first-date question, an unwanted season of singleness, or the pressure a church community can put on single adults. The advice is practical. It also stays rooted in Christian language and assumptions without turning every answer into a theology lecture. One recurring strength is the way the show pushes past stock phrases. When people say to be content, stop looking, or wait until the right moment, the show asks what that actually means in daily behavior. It draws a useful line between patience and passivity. It also emphasizes not dating in isolation. Friends, church community, and people who know someone’s patterns are treated as important voices, especially when a listener may be seeking the answer they wanted instead of the answer they needed. The tone is warm, but it can be blunt. That bluntness usually comes wrapped in teasing, self-correction, and stories rather than polished advice-column language. Later episodes carry the added texture of a show nearing its ending. There is reminiscing, gratitude, and a little disbelief that the run is almost over. Kristen appears in the finale as part of that goodbye. For listeners who want Christian dating talk that feels lived-in, relational, and usefully specific, the show offers a candid archive of questions from the middle of the process.
Made for: The show suits Christian singles who want practical dating guidance that understands church culture, community input, online profiles, and the emotional weight of singleness.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the mix of casual chemistry and concrete counsel: jokes and rabbit trails give way to specific advice about readiness, profile choices, and dating around church expectations.
Have you ever asked yourself the question, ”Why is dating so hard?” Have you felt frustrated, confused, or overwhelmed trying to navigate dating and relationships? Well you are not alone!Looking For The Middle is a podcast where you can find helpful, Christ-honoring, easy-to-follow advice about dating, singleness, relationships, and everything in between. There is a lot out there about the theology of dating and how to date in a way that honors the Lord.... and that is great! We’re going to talk about that plenty too, but we’re also going to talk about the practical stuff too. How to flirt. How to tell if they’re interested. What to expect on a 1st date. ....and so much more! Our ultimate go…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Faith, humor and concrete social guidance meet in conversations that make modern Christian dating feel less opaque.
Looking For The Middle: The Christian's Guide to Modern Dating turns the awkward mechanics of dating into candid, faith-grounded conversation.
Twelve photos, twelve hats: suddenly your dating profile needs an honest friend.
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A warm, wandering finale that turns podcast memories and church singleness advice into a sincere goodbye.
The finale lands as a fond goodbye to the relationships that made Looking for the Middle feel lived-in. Bethany, Dalton, and Kristen begin with easy teasing around Kristen's surprise question of the day, then drift into favorite episodes and Dalton's story about not planning to…
A warm second-to-last conversation about dating readiness, church matchmaking, and the questions community can help answer.
Bethany and Dalton's second-to-last Looking for the Middle episode starts with a casual weather question, then eases into a more useful conversation about knowing when someone is ready to date again.
A warm, practical episode about making an online dating profile feel fuller and more honest.
Bethany and her co-host treat the online dating profile as a small case study in self-presentation. Close-up selfies, hat fishing, and the need for a fuller sense of personality and appearance all get handled with a mix of humor and usable advice.
Bethany and Dalton make a scattered return feel warm, funny, and quietly useful on dating and missed chances.
Bethany and Dalton come back from illness, travel, and a Thanksgiving pause with the relaxed feel of friends resuming a conversation midstream.
A warm, lightly funny episode about first-date honesty, awkward moments, and slowing down the pressure to decide too much too soon.
The episode turns ordinary first-date awkwardness into useful dating advice, beginning with the kind of small social moments that can make anyone freeze: sauce on a shirt, food in the teeth, and the split-second choice between honesty and embarrassment.
A warm, practical case for handling serious conversations in real time rather than through scripted messages.
Bethany and Kristen make a persuasive case for having serious conversations in real time. Texts and voice messages can turn a discussion into dueling statements, with neither person able to read a reaction, answer at once, or change course as the exchange unfolds.
Pastoral sermons for healing, faith, and release.
Faithful steps for God-shaped dreams.
Christian marriage counsel with prayerful accountability.
Christian steadiness for unsettled news and cultural life.
A Christian dating podcast episode featuring an interview with a couple discussing their relationship and answering a fun question of the day.
Hosts Kristen and Bethany interview Dalton Teal, a 26-year-old director of family ministries, in their seventh 'men tell all' episode.
Hosts Bethany and Kristen address a listener question about whether serious conversations like DTR talks can happen over text or voice messages.
Bethany says singleness is not a character flaw, and Dalton says the show helped people stop treating it that way.
Bethany and Dalton mark the show’s “second to last episode” by answering eight CouchCast questions and revisiting the dating themes they have used for years.
Two hosts banter about recording issues and introduce their Christian dating advice podcast.
Bethany says January and February are the busiest months on dating apps, and she uses that timing to frame a five-point checklist for stronger profiles.
Hosts Bethany and Dalton discuss their struggles with keeping up with newsletter and Patreon, and share personal anecdotes about their day.
Bethany opens "Looking For The Middle: The Christian’s Guide to Modern Dating" by explaining that sickness, travel, and Thanksgiving pushed the show off schedule, then says she had to "call things off" about a month earlier.
Looking For The Middle hosts Bethany and Dalton revisit their recurring claim that dating is overcomplicated and focus on how to simplify it through direct, consistent communication.
A Christian podcast offering advice on dating, relationships, and singleness from a biblical perspective.
A Christian dating podcast featuring an interview with a couple about their relationship journey.
Two Christian women introduce their podcast season premiere, offering faith-based dating advice and discussing their upcoming episode with a male guest.
A Christian podcast offering advice on dating, relationships, and singleness from a biblical perspective.