Friendship & Loneliness

Joseph Minich explains how managed, mediated modern life quietly erodes the felt presence of God, and how hospitality restores it.

Jake Meador on industrial and digital revolutions, the choices they foreclose, and recovering embodied life together.

Chris Martin on the anxiety social media breeds, the gap between our front- and backstage selves, and how churches should show up online.

Ruth Cuthbert on dating apps, singleness, and the hard work of treating a profile as a person rather than an option to swipe past.

Is authenticity overrated? Using BeReal as a test case, the hosts ask what 'be real' actually demands of us, and whether any app can deliver it.

Why does a voice in your ears feel like a friend? The hosts on podcasting, parasocial closeness, and the difference between consuming and creating.

If distraction is engineered, how do we push back? Five counter-practices for reclaiming attention in an economy built to fragment it.