“Friendship” Articles

The secret of life is to learn how to live in this story we don’t control. The way to live this secret is through friendship.

God created us in his image to live at his speed so we might know others and know Him.

The Banshees of Inisherin asks the question: How do friends fit into our lives?

First Cow and Nomadland offer their characters to us as fellow travelers on the road of life, who know that home isn’t just a place, it’s friendship.

But the idea that people go through a stage of “friends as family” and then graduate into “real” family is one I find to be a less-good story.

Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Ross gave us something greater to aspire toward: togetherness. 

His life’s work was the common and righteous work of loving those around him until he physically was incapable of serving others.

Gina Dalfonzo joins Erin and Hannah to explore the value of nurturing friendships even in the most dire of circumstances.

These friendship stories—in giving us fantastic scenarios—demonstrate how in God’s economy friendship is far from cheap.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse emphasizes C. S. Lewis’s understanding of friendship among people who understand one another.

D. L. Mayfield recaps the season 3 finale of The Good Place, “Pandemonium.”

Wanting to connect was my reason to attend comic con that first time, but it cannot explain why I want to go back as much as I do.

By exploring a practical, biblical understanding of friendship that views Christ as the ultimate model, Made for Friendship will hopefully help many of us move toward deeper and truer friendships with those around us.

Sometimes it takes a “landline” and a little bit of getting up in each others’ business to see exactly how much friendship works for our good.

Eleven longs for somewhere to belong more than most, though almost every character in Stranger Things 2 mirrors this struggle in some way.

Beth’s witness shows that “real” community, with vulnerability and obligations and joy and weeping and love, can exist wherever people are willing to use words to bear with one another over time.