{"id":9599,"date":"2015-04-14T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:59:37","slug":"metaphors-of-brotherhood-and-sisterhood-im-at-spiritual-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/04\/metaphors-of-brotherhood-and-sisterhood-im-at-spiritual-friendship.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Metaphors of Brotherhood and Sisterhood&#8221;: I&#8217;m at Spiritual Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>with a short post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is just a quick post to note that we don\u2019t use sibling metaphors a lot on this site, and maybe we should. They played an important role in articulating the meaning of vowed friendship in both Eastern and Western Christianity (the terms <em>adelphopoeisis<\/em> and \u201cwedded brotherhood\u201d both use this metaphor) and they reflect an understanding of friendship as a form of kinship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrazosblog.com\/2015\/04\/the-gift-of-friendship-by-wesley-hill\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Wesley Hill quotes me<\/a> talking about the way that certain friendships, over time, take on the quality of givenness which we associate with familial relationships: You\u2019re stuck with your brothers. You may not be able to see or speak to them, but they remain bound to you, a part of your family for as long as you live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualfriendship.org\/2015\/04\/14\/metaphors-of-brotherhood-and-sisterhood\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with a short post: This is just a quick post to note that we don\u2019t use sibling metaphors a lot on this site, and maybe we should. They played an important role in articulating the meaning of vowed friendship in both Eastern and Western Christianity (the terms adelphopoeisis and \u201cwedded brotherhood\u201d both use this metaphor) [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,30,22,27],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-friendship","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-turn-your-watch-back-about-a-hundred-thousand-years","tag-vocation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Metaphors of Brotherhood and Sisterhood&quot;: I&#039;m at Spiritual Friendship<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"with a short post: This is just a quick post to note that we don\u2019t use sibling metaphors a lot on this site, and maybe we should. 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