Make New Friends, Keep Texting the Old

Technology does too good a job at sustaining our distant friendships.

Technology presents a Faustian bargain.... While we gain the ability to keep long-distance friends close through emailing, texting, and social media—a more immediate, constant form of connection than the letters and phone calls earlier generations relied on—we can easily miss out on other forms of community. Keep reading

This article is classified "registered/limited access." You may have to register in order to read it. The phenomenon Liuan Huska describes in her article also helps to explain why churches are less evangelistic today than they were fifty years ago. Old friendships were much more difficult to maintain then and people were more likely seek and make new friends. This included new friends who were unchurched.