Loneliness |
Friday Aug 22 2008
By Jim Selman | BioNathan Oates, a Christian minister who writes a very thoughtful blog called “Theologically Speaking”, did a nice piece on loneliness. His point: how we seem to fragment our society into all kinds of niches and end up not relating to or connecting with most of the people around us. Even in the churches that one would imagine to be the most community-oriented institutions, the norm is to break the congregation into oriented ‘special interest’ groups according to age—the tots, teens, 20 ‘somethings’, 30 ‘somethings’, middle-agers and seniors. While such segregation might make sense in terms of some ‘educational’ objectives, it makes no sense spiritually and undermines the whole idea of a multigenerational community.[Read More]
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