You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves.
Researchers have long known that people choose friends who are much like themselves in a wide array of characteristics: of a similar age,...
7 Things All Great Friends Do
It wasn’t until I had moved back to my hometown, post-graduation, and had to start all over in finding a community that I began to...
TEAMWORK: THE BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP OF FRODO BAGGINS AND SAMWISE GAMGEE
And the life-long, intimate, strong, eternal friendship of Frodo and Sam is one of the best ever told. Frodo who is a small hobbit who...
If Paul Needed Friends, So Do We
When surveying the life of the apostle Paul, we see his firm belief in the sufficiency of the gospel and his willingness to suffer for...
Are Men Starving for Physical Touch?
Why is it that men are afraid of physical contact? Most women seem to have little problem touching each other in gentle, platonic ways,...
Alone, Yet Not Lonely
I was facing one of the most difficult seasons of my life. And it didn’t help that I felt so alonein it. So there I was—an American, on...
Love, Covenant, and Friendship
"In fact, however, ancient and medieval friendship was not only an essential public good, it could also be a much deeper and more...
‘Couldn’t We Just Be Friends?’
"Paradoxically, it is friendship that offers us the real route to the pleasures that Romanticism associates with love. That this sounds...
FAMILY CHAT: THE FRIENDSHIPS THAT SURVIVE
"We encourage each other to live with conviction, honesty, integrity, and vulnerability. We trust that the others in our circle of...
If We Hold On Together
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