EP143 - The Other Half — Friendship, Community, and the Household We Miss

Reggie's close friend lost his wife to stage four pancreatic cancer about six weeks after diagnosis. Standing at the funeral, Reggie realized he had known his friend since high school and had never really known her. This episode is what came out of that — a return to our male friendship episode from 101 episodes ago, and an honest look at what we left out.

KEY TOPICS:

- Revisiting the Lindsay Clancy case and where our position has landed

- Why a friend is a family member you're not related to by blood

- The household as the missing piece in how we define friendship

- Men, isolation, and why the phone doesn't ring when things get hard

- How community used to be a neighborhood and is now a single household

- House-to-house language in the New Testament church

- What happens three or four weeks after the funeral, when everyone stops calling

- What not to say to a widow or widower

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: Acts 2, Romans 16, 1 Corinthians 16, Genesis 3, Romans 12:15

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