Nothing characterizes the dystopia of our modern, liberal consumerist society more than the profound loneliness, isolation, and alienation experienced by young men and women. It is extremely common for young men (and even young women) to have no friends they regularly see in person. This epidemic of loneliness has been a topic of discussion in academic circle’s since the publication of sociologist Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone (2000), but it’s time that Christians learned this lesson. It is not possible to understand the spiritual miasma of our era without recognizing how extraordinarily
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