The gifts New York City has given me

As the late Tim Keller said, people come here so that they don't feel abnormal.

A few weeks ago, I shared an essay about living in a Christian suburb, and why I couldn’t thrive there as a single woman. I wrote that moving to New York City meant moving out of a social imaginary that sees marriage and family as the pinnacle of Christian fulfillment. Then I suggested some of you should move to NYC, as an aside that could be annoying i…