friendship

According to research from Harvard Graduate School of Education, 36 percent of Americans report feeling “serious loneliness,” as do an incredible 61 percent of young adults. According to a Cigna health survey, nearly 54 percent of American adults agree with the statement, “nobody knows me well.” Isolated and glued to our screens, it’s a crisis that’s only getting worse.

A new Pew Research Center survey found that 59 percent of U.S. adults find having political conversations with people they disagree with is “stressful and frustrating.”

The church has the power to stop the epidemic of loneliness. Ask God to help you deepen your connections today—then seek to be the friend to others that Jesus is to you.

According to a new survey, American men have far fewer friends today than they did in the 1990s.

On a near-perfect late summer evening, about a dozen people gathered on a picnic blanket in Chicago’s Palmer Square Park, spread between kids playing on playground equipment and young adults throwing a Frisbee disc on the lawn.

In the worship center of a nondenominational church in Blountville, Tenn., Jason Greer told a room of about 450 that he wasn’t used to public speaking. But his rhetorical skills hardly mattered: His story — of years of drug abuse, incarceration and, now, the long road to recovery — powerfully put a human face on the opioid addiction crisis.

Spiritual friendship can have an enormous impact on the way we live. When darkness threatens to overtake us, or sin comes prowling at our door, God often speaks to us through the words of a trusted friend.

Are you friends with your friends because it benefits you? Or because it benefits them? It might be time to reconsider the motives behind your friendships...

Maybe the best thing you can do for your own frazzled, frustrated self today is encourage someone else...

Recently, Bieber took his Hillsong friends’ advice to cut out negative influences in his life, and that decision has angered boxer Floyd Mayweather.