S7:2 EP94: Friendship: Not a Lesser Love + Bonus Post Ep. Chat with Christy Isinger

Here during Valentine's Day Week, we're celebrating one of life's biggest joys: Friendship, a love that is often much devalued in our modern society. While friendship might be unnecessary in the most basic biological sense (we need parents, we need spouses, in ways that we don’t need friends), it is precisely that lack of obligation that has the potential to elevate friendship to an extraordinarily high, even near divine, place in our lives. We're going to celebrate with audio clips giving us a chance to meditate on great friendships like Anne Shirley and Diana Barry, Elphaba and Glinda, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, Jesus and His disciples. After the main episode stay tuned for a bonus chat with Christy Isinger, all about the amazing friendships you develop when traveling on a pilgrimage - if you've been thinking about signing up for our Ireland 2024 trip, now is the time! Stay tuned for more details. 

 

All the Pilgrimage Details here!

https://www.bornofwonder.com/come-to-ireland-with-me 

 

Video chat with Christy Isinger and More Pilgrimage Info

https://bornofwonder.substack.com/p/ireland-chat-with-christy-isinger 

 

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” 

-C.S. Lewis

“No longer will I call you servants… Indeed, I have called you friends"

John 15:15

 

Anne of Green Gables (1985)

https://www.anneofgreengables.com/ 

 

C.S. Lewis "The Four Loves"

 

"Friendship is Unnecessary" Substack Essay

 

"For Good" from Wicked

 

Song Recommendation: "Down by the Water" by Abigail Lappell 

 

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