loneliness

Books

Ben, in the World, by Doris Lessing

Dec 13, 2000 Reviewed by Trudy Bush

In her new novel, Doris Les­sing gives a fresh twist to an old idea: What would our world seem like to an alien who found himself among us, and how would we react to such a being? But Ben Lovat is not a creature from another planet; he is from our own distant past--a throwback to a species near the beginning of human evolution.

Features

Loneliness virus

Douglas Coupland’s world

Nov 08, 2000 by J. Brent Bill

All the lonely people, where do they all come from? That question from “Eleanor Rigby” might serve as the epigraph for the works of Douglas Coupland. Coupland is the Canadian writer who burst on the scene in 1991 with Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, thereby coining the term for his generation.

Faith Matters

You’re lonely, I’m lonely

We are created for communion
Jan 26, 2010 by L. Gregory Jones
Could loneliness be as contagious as the H1N1 virus? Is loneliness dangerous to the public’s health? Usually we think of “infection” or “contagion” only in relation to medical viruses and define lonely people as those who keep their feelings to themselves.
Books

Out of Darkness, into Light: Spiritual Guidance in the Quran with Reflections from Christian and Jewish Sources

Jamal Rahman, Kathleen SchmittElias and Ann Holmes Redding

The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century

Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz

Bookmarks

Jul 28, 2009
Sufi teacher Jamal Rahman has teamed up again with two friends, Jewish scholar Kathleen Schmitt Elias and Christian scholar Ann Holmes Redding, to write about the spiritual path in each tradition.
Faith Matters

My Facebook friends

Connected but lonely
Jul 15, 2008 by L. Gregory Jones
With one child in college and two teenagers at home, I learned vicariously about “being friended” and “facebooking.” My kids didn’t want me to join Facebook, but relented when I told them that our seminary students were forming groups on Facebook and inviting me to participate. I entered a new universe.