{"id":8907,"date":"2014-10-04T13:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2014-10-04T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:52:46","slug":"are-vowed-friendships-really-what-we-need-wesley-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/10\/are-vowed-friendships-really-what-we-need-wesley-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"“Are ‘Vowed Friendships’ Really What We Need?”: Wesley Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

rounds up some links. Comments also worth reading; I\u2019m most sympathetic to the first comment, but others raise important points, including the stuff I talked about in that \u201cCaptive Virgins<\/a>\u201d post:<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I wrote an article for Christianity Today<\/em> on friendship<\/a>, basically making the case that we ought to be able to think of our Christian friendships as more significant, committed, public, and permanent than we usually do.<\/p>\n

Well, since then, Matthew Lee Anderson has offered a different perspective on his blog<\/a>. Furthermore, he and his friends devoted an episode of their podcast to talking about the issue<\/a>, and you can listen to that here.<\/p>\n

Now, most recently, the really thoughtful Alastair Roberts has written up his thoughts on the issue<\/a>, and, as usual, I think they\u2019re worth reading in full.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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rounds up some links. Comments also worth reading; I\u2019m most sympathetic to the first comment, but others raise important points, including the stuff I talked about in that \u201cCaptive Virgins\u201d post: As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I wrote an article for Christianity Today on friendship, basically making the case that we ought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,11,27,73],"class_list":["post-8907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-friendship","tag-his-banner-over-me-was-love","tag-vocation","tag-wesley-hill"],"yoast_head":"\n"Are 'Vowed Friendships' Really What We Need?": Wesley Hill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"rounds up some links. 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