Saved by the City

It's Time to Move On From the Nuclear Family + Rhaina Cohen


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After you have spent most of your adult life single, as we have, you recognize the importance of building a network of friends who are more than just brunch buddies. You need those friends who send you soup when you're sick and offer their couch for days on end after a breakup and are more than happy to sit in the hospital waiting room while you recover from anesthesia.

When you're married, these are the expected role of the spouse, but that's not the reality for many of us today. And maybe it was always too much for one person to bear anyway. On this episode, Katelyn and Roxy take another look at the early church in Acts and ask: What if they had it right all along and why have we so persistently ignored their model?

Plus, we talk with Rhaina Cohen and imagine what it could look like to elevate the role of friendship in our lives.

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Rhaina Cohen is a journalist based in D.C. and the author of the bestselling book "The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life With Friendship at the Center," and a producer and editor for NPR’s "Embedded."

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