Episode description

Here I unpack Anselm's view of friendship, which reveals one of our culture's biggest blind spots: loneliness.  

For Anselm's letters, vol. 1: https://www.amazon.com/Letters-St-Anselm-Canterbury/dp/0879077964/ 

For Richard Southern's biography of Anselm: https://www.amazon.com/St-Anselm-Landscape-Richard-Southern/dp/0521438187/ 

For a helpful book on friendship, check out Drew Hunter's Made for  Friendship: The Relationship That Halves Our Sorrows and Doubles Our  Joys: https://www.amazon.com/Made-Friendship-Relationship-Sorrows-Doubles/dp/143355819X

Truth Unites is a mixture of apologetics and theology, with an irenic focus.

Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Ojai.

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