Is One The Loneliest Number?

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Lydia Brownback joins the conversation today to talk about loneliness - that dark cloud that shows no partiality on whom it descends. Lydia is a friend of the Alliance as a one time producer of The Bible Study Hour broadcast and what is now our Think and Act Biblically devotional. While we certainly miss her, she’s now both an author and speaker whose typical audience is women. But her latest book, Finding God in My Loneliness, strikes a chord, both, with men and women. Let’s join in now as Lydia debunks some common myths about loneliness, offers careful critique of singles in the church, and voices the biblical standards at stake in the sexualized culture in which we live.We have a several copies of "Fine China is for Single Women Too" and "Finding God in My Loneliness" by Lydia Brownback that we are giving away. Be sure to enter for your chance to win.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.5	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.6	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:32.8	Thank you. All right, well, I'm so excited to introduce our guest today.
0:49.1	Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
0:50.8	This is Amy Bird, and I'm here with my usual co-host, Todd Pruitt, and Carl Truman.
0:57.0	And I'm really excited today that we're talking to Lydia Brownback. She's an author and a speaker.
1:02.1	And her latest book, where we're really excited to talk about, is Finding God in My Loneliness.
1:07.8	You might also know her from her book, Fine China is for single women too.
1:12.8	Hi, Lydia. How you doing? Great to be here today, Amy. Yeah. So I was, when I saw your latest book,
1:19.0	I always notice when you've written a new book because I like your writing. I thought, wow,
1:24.0	now that is an interesting title. And I know you've written about being single,
1:30.1	and so many people love your writing on that. But when I read the title Finding God and
1:35.4	my loneliness, I knew because of the title that that's not what you were writing about. And right
1:41.6	away, I could tell in the table of contents, now these are some really
1:46.4	interesting topics, like the loneliness of leaving, the loneliness of night, the loneliness of
1:53.5	obedience. I mean, there's just so many neat topics here that you talk about that everyone has
1:59.9	experienced in one way or another.
2:03.4	My first question is I just kind of wanted to throw out there a statement that you make right
2:07.5	in the beginning of the book that there's a difference between loneliness and being alone.
2:13.5	Could you explain that for us?
2:15.6	Yeah.
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