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Latino Christian Laments Lack of American Friendships
"In Mexico they wanted to be my friends because they wanted to do missions to me, but when I moved to the United States no one wanted to be my friend." ...
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What Happens When We Practice Hospitality
In her books Openness Unhindered, Rosaria Butterfield reminds us that the point of hospitality in the home is fellowship, not entertainment. Butterfield ...
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Man with Amnesia Known through Community
When we have forgotten the past, the community helps us re-learn our own story. The case of "Benjamin Kyle" is instructive. In the early morning of August ...
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Researcher Tracks the 'Vanishing Neighbor' Effect
Few Americans today say they know their neighbors' names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis. Pulling data from the General Social ...
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Researchers Struggle to Define Friendship
The New York Times recently featured an article exploring our current confusion about friendship. "Ask people to define friendship—even [experts ...
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Are You Really My Friend
Being someone's friend used to mean something, until Facebook came along. Now we are "friends" with many people we don't even know that ...
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Film 'About a Boy' and Our Need for Community
In the film About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays Will Freeman, a single, early-middle-aged slacker who lives luxuriously off the royalties of a Christmas song ...
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Isolation Can Make Us Ill or Dead
Recent research studies show how much we crave community and friendship. A study of 3,000 women with breast cancer found that those with a large network ...
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The Positive or Negative Influence of Friendships and Small Groups
An article from Wired Magazine explored why AA has been able to help millions of people recover from an alcohol addiction. The article begins by stating, ...
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The Drive of Loneliness
Loneliness is the psychic pain that drives us to do something about our isolation. That's just the way people are made.
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