This Should Bother You More Than It Does | Ecclesiastes 4

About this episode

This sermon discusses the impact of loneliness and isolation in modern life through the lens of Ecclesiastes 4.

Loneliness is killing us. Literally. And we've barely noticed. We've built a world that is frictionless, individualized, optimized for exactly what we want — and somehow ended up more isolated than ever. Friendship has become the greatest casualty of modern life. And we don't even know it. In this sermon we sit with Ecclesiastes 4 — an ancient, brutally honest text that turns out to understand our moment better than we do. We'll wrestle with what's actually driving our ambition, why getting...

People in this episode

Host: Paul D. Anderson

Topics covered

• loneliness
• friendship
• modern life
• ambition
• isolation
• spirituality

Keywords

• loneliness
• friendship
• isolation
• Ecclesiastes
• ambition
• spirituality
• modern life

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Books & works: Ecclesiastes 4

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