“All-Weather Friends”: me on Wallace Stegner

May 21, 2013 By

at Acculturated: All three novels of marriage I’ve looked at so far have a certain sense of the privacy of marriage, which can become isolation. In fact, the focus has narrowed with each novel: Extended family and community are essential parts of Kristin Lavransdatter, but its heart remains with Kristin’s marriage and home; the isolation [...]

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From “Brideshead Revisited”

May 14, 2013 By

“I think you are very fond of Sebastian,” she said. “Why, certainly.” “I know of these romantic friendships of the English and the Germans. They are not Latin. I think they are very good if they do not go on too long.”

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“Making Amends Was Everything I Least Expected”: Anna David

March 15, 2013 By

at The Fix–I cannot get enough of these stories: I thought I knew exactly how my Ninth Step in AA would unfold. Instead, over a decade later, I’m still trying to make sense of people’s unpredictable reactions. more

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“Christians: Siblings, Not ‘Friends’?”: Wesley Hill

January 18, 2013 By

writes: …In the New Testament, familial language far outweighs the language of friendship when it comes to describing Christian community. Believers are one another’s “brothers and sisters in Christ,” not (primarily) one another’s “friends.” It’s true, as Stephen Fowl and others have shown, that some of the Greco-Roman language of friendship is reappropriated in the [...]

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A conversation with me and Sr. Jeannine Gramick

January 5, 2013 By

at Interfaith Voices. (Scroll down–I missed this when it was posted over the summer.) I haven’t listened to it yet, so apologize in advance for any errors, jerkishness, etc….

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“Friendship in the Ordinary”

January 5, 2013 By

Wesley Hill on a (death-haunted!) story of women’s friendship.

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“Celibacy and Friendship ‘After 30′”: Wesley Hill

January 2, 2013 By

muses on the problems, and offers some anecdotes with practical advice: …When I speak to groups of Christians about celibacy and friendship, one of the questions that always comes up is whether intimate friendships are attainable in churches today, particularly for single young adults. “You speak positively and hopefully about friendship,” people say, “but are [...]

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Book Recommendations on Friendship

November 30, 2012 By

Wesley Hill is seeking them, and the comments are full of them! A cornucopia.

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“The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship, Part IV”

November 22, 2012 By

Me on friendship and addiction, at Catholic Lane.

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“To come first for someone”

October 29, 2012 By

Another post about questions I got on my speaking tour. One man asked about something a gay friend of his had said, which really resonated with him. I can’t remember, unfortunately, if the friend was citing this as a reason to reject celibacy and seek out a gay relationship, or if he was just saying [...]

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