This episode marks the 1 year anniversary of dPod. One year ago on 12/2/22, we published our first full-length episode of dPod (DP's Mind: Faith Journey). Since then we've published 1700 minutes of content. Our top episode ever was Ep.16 The Dating Episode (Part 1): The Bro Staff, which for 27% of you was the first episode you listened to. And we've had over 6000 plays just on Spotify in the past year! A year ago, this was totally an experiment for whether we could get asynchronous content to our students here at UChicago/IIT (which is still its core goal) but I know that a lot of others have been listening in, and I hope that it has been and will continue to be a blessing to you!

Now for today's episode, hurriedly released to be released on the day of the dPod 1 year anniversary, is the final installment of Basics--the series that's all about coming back to the basics of Christian living. For this week, I talk with Tofunmi, Biatris, and Hyuna about Christian friendships, or as we talk about it a lot at our church ... "peer" relationships. What's special about it? What's hard about it? How have they helped us to grow?