Talking Face to Face First, friendships flourish when we talk together, especially face to face. One of the best gifts life offers us is unhurried conversation with close friends. Thomas Goodwin put it this way: “Mutual communion is the soul of all true friendship; and familiar conversation with a friend has the greatest sweetness in it.”5 Some ways of communicating strengthen friendship better than others. When we send digital messages, we’re most often sustaining, rather than deepening,
