Spiritual Scorekeeping · Finding Real Friends · Content Overwhelm

About this episode

The episode discusses how to measure spiritual life, find genuine friendships, and manage content overwhelm.

Kicking off the relaunch of Friends In Formation, James, Richella—and new host Tiana Spencer—discuss three listener questions: how to stop measuring your spiritual life by the world's standards, why genuine adult friendship feels so rare (and how to find it), and how to break free from the overwhelm of too many books and courses.

People in this episode

Hosts: James, Richella, Tiana Spencer

Topics covered

• spiritual life
• friendship
• content overwhelm
• adult relationships
• measuring success

Keywords

• spiritual scorekeeping
• real friends
• content overwhelm
• adult friendship
• spiritual standards

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