What Emotional Dependency Looks Like

How does being friends with Jesus change the way we do friendship, with Christians and non-Christians? What are the most encouraging and challenging things about the friendship Jesus offers us? And how do we practically go about addressing the friendship deficit in our own lives, while having realistic expectations of ourselves and our friends?  

We’re joined by Vaughan Roberts for a challenging, encouraging and liberating conversation about the joys and limits of human friendship, and how knowing Jesus as our friend transforms our view of and approach to friendships. Vaughan is the rector of St Ebbe’s church in Oxford and author of True Friendship. 

Resources mentioned and related

• True Friendship Vaughan Roberts 
• Emotional Dependency: A Threat to Close Friendships Lori Thorkelson Rentzel 
• Emotional Dependency Andrew Bunt 
• A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara   
• The Lord of the Rings J R R Tolkien 
• Wicked 
• Wendell Berry short stories and novels 
• Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir Frank Field