Vital topic James. To the point of isolation consider friendship. Cicero’s On Friendship is a must read if you haven’t already. CS Lewis’ Four Loves has a solid modern synthesis of most of the points Cicero put forth in friendship. I believe this is the great failure of our culture. We claimed to worship a God who said he is love then claimed there is no greater love than giving one’s life for one’s friends but then as a culture we stopped short of modeling and educating experientially friendship.
Looking forward to reading more of your work on this topic as always.
This is a vital conversation to be surfacing for men James. Thank you for bringing it. It brought up so much for that I found myself deep here into leaving an extended comment that deserves a different space, so if I get to developing it I will tag you in.
Vital topic James. To the point of isolation consider friendship. Cicero’s On Friendship is a must read if you haven’t already. CS Lewis’ Four Loves has a solid modern synthesis of most of the points Cicero put forth in friendship. I believe this is the great failure of our culture. We claimed to worship a God who said he is love then claimed there is no greater love than giving one’s life for one’s friends but then as a culture we stopped short of modeling and educating experientially friendship.
Looking forward to reading more of your work on this topic as always.
This is a vital conversation to be surfacing for men James. Thank you for bringing it. It brought up so much for that I found myself deep here into leaving an extended comment that deserves a different space, so if I get to developing it I will tag you in.