Kindred Spirits: Reading for Friendship’s Sake?

A lecture given at L’Abri Fellowship in Southborough,
Massachusetts. For more information,
visit https://southboroughlabri.org/


by Esther Dalton


Anne Shirley, the protagonist of the Anne of Green Gables series
by L.M. Montgomery, is famous for seeking a "bosom friend" and
looking everywhere for "kindred spirits." But do stories about
friendship and community have anything to do with reality? What
does reading have to do with friendship, if anything? As
loneliness and disconnectedness remain persistent problems in our
culture, this lecture will seek solutions in books--which
themselves have been called by many writers and readers,
"friends."


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