TIL 408: Considering Loneliness (feat. Lou Priolo)
Truth in Love
Association of Certified Biblical Counselors
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
1. Defining loneliness
2. The difference between being alone and being lonely.
3. The benefits and dangers of loneliness.
4. Practical ways to care for those that are lonely.
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| 0:00.0 | Considering Loneliness on this edition of Truth and Love. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, |
| 0:16.7 | where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face. |
| 0:22.1 | This week on the podcast, I have with me a dear brother, Lou Priolo. |
| 0:26.3 | He's a graduate of Calvary Bible College and Liberty University. |
| 0:29.7 | He holds a doctor of divinity from Calvary University. |
| 0:32.8 | He's been a full-time biblical counselor since 1985. |
| 0:36.3 | He's the author of several books, including The Heart of |
| 0:38.8 | Anger, People Pleasing, and most recently, the subject of our conversation today, loneliness, |
| 0:45.3 | along with several other titles. Lou is a member of the International Association of Biblical |
| 0:49.7 | Counselors, a fellow in the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors, and he's the director of biblical |
| 0:55.8 | counseling at Christ Covenant Buckhead in Atlanta. |
| 0:59.2 | He travels frequently throughout the U.S. and abroad training pastors, laymen, and fellow |
| 1:03.3 | counselors, as well as conducting a wide variety of seminars through competent to counsel |
| 1:08.1 | international, the nonprofit organization, which he founded in 2013. |
| 1:12.5 | Lou and his wife, Kim, have been married since 1987, and are the parents of two grown daughters, Sophia and Gabriela. |
| 1:19.9 | Lou, it's so good to have you here on the podcast today. I'm looking forward to our conversation. |
| 1:24.1 | Yeah, it's good to be here. Thanks for the invite, Dale. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm looking forward to talking about this topic as well, this topic of loneliness. You've recently published a book on this topic. And I wanted to sit down with you to just have a conversation about this topic of loneliness, probably more pervasive in our age as any, which is really strange considering that we're such a, quote, unquote, |
| 1:45.0 | connected society. I'm interested to see where we're going to go here. So I want to start |
| 1:49.7 | with this topic. You say that we have an epidemic of loneliness. Why is that, Lou? |
| 1:55.4 | The United Kingdom, as of January 2018, now this is before COVID instituted a title called the Minister of Loneliness. |
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