Comments on: Exploring friendship

By: green toad

green toad — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:12:21 +0000

While I don’t want the book to be just “for the guys,” one book I would recommend “for the guys” is Niobe Way’s Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. Not theology, not Christian, just great material.

By: tao fool

tao fool — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:10:37 +0000

While I wouldn’t want this to be just a “men’s book,” I’d like to recommend Niobe Way’s Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection. Not theology, not Christian, but excellent for the guys.

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By: edshawcommonplace

edshawcommonplace — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:47:15 +0000

Wes,

Couple of additions to the increasingly long list of books of friendship:

I think I came across Andrew Sullivan’s ‘Love Undetectable’ through you anyway but, if not, it’s one of the first places I would recommend you’d go.

For a beautiful portrayal of a friendship in action have you come across: ‘What there is to say we have said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty & William Maxwell’? I’m enjoying creeping my way through it.

Other places I’ve found good stuff on the subject can be found at:

http://edshawcommonplaceblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/FRIENDSHIP

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 02:21:35 +0000

What a fascinating topic! My experiences with friendship have been so varied, with the childhood friends who were just taken for granted (lived nearby), the school friendships that had a lingering hope of permanency to them, the ministry friendships that were based on…well, ministry, and the searching and desire for friendship now in mid-life and in ministry, and finding it quite difficult to navigate. I’ve reached a place in my life when I say to myself sometimes, “I’m surprised I don’t have the friends I had in my younger years, since I am fairly socially driven.”

By: myartofbeinghere

myartofbeinghere — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:24:15 +0000

Congrats, Wes! I look forward to reading it when you finish up.

Eugene Peterson has a chapter on Friendship in his book Leap Over A Wall. It is focused on the friendship of David and Jonathan.

Tim Keller also has a few good sermons on friendship at the Redeemer NYC website.

Other than that, I haven’t read a whole lot on this important topic. Excited about you taking this up.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:38:18 +0000

Wes,

Here are links to three articles on Male Friendships and the Sexual Revolution that I found utterly fascinating:

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevinwax/2012/12/06/sexual-freedom-always-curtails-other-freedoms/?comments#comments

http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-07-021-f

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/08/24/the-history-and-nature-of-man-friendships/

Check ‘em out!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:26:49 +0000

Christopher–thanks for the book suggestion. I have never heard of it, but it sounds interesting. I am trying to think of what books I like but coming up a bit short. The first thing that comes to mind is a book on interpersonal communication called “Reaching Out”–which gets more into the psychology of things–how to actually relate to others which, of course, is the basis of friendship.