The recent upheavals last week at Spark Networks, operators of Christian Mingle and Jdate pose some important questions about niche dating sites. Stockholders voted out most of the existing board and signalled a change in direction.

Do the events there say anything more generally about the state of the niche dating model?

Christian Connection member Cat Lane appeared in The Times Magazine as one of the most popular members christianconnection.co.uk. The article looks at “Britain’s Most Wanted” daters on the UK’s top online dating sites.

Zuliana & Tope met on Christian Connection in October 2012 and married in March 2013. They share their story on Premier Gospel Radio.

Christian Connection launches an advertising campaign on the London Underground – the first specifically religious dating site to do so.

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For the last 13 years since we launched Christian Connection, I have hoped that one day a TV programme about Internet dating would come along which is genuinely well informed, probing and helpful. But I ended up watching ‘ITV Tonight: Looking for Love’ with a mixture of frustration and resignation. Apparently the twittersphere agreed with me.

A new survey on loneliness suggests that religious people may be more likely to be lonely than those without a faith. Trevor Barnes considers whether the church’s focus on the family can alienate those who live alone.

Christian Connection founder Jackie Elton wrote a guest post for Global Dating Insights on what makes the Christian Dating market different.

Woman Alive reported on the largest ever survey of single Christians in the UK, conducted by Christian Connection.