Who can you call at 2am? It's time for Christians to counter the loneliness epidemic

The world is experiencing a friendship recession. Sheridan Voysey explains how both culture and Church came to neglect friendship and how you can reclaim this forgotten love

Let me take you to a drab government seminar room sometime in 2008. My wife and I were exploring fostering and adoption, and as we gathered with others to learn what might be involved, our straight-talking facilitator prepared us by sharing her toughest stories. “What will you do when your foster child won’t hug you because of her attachment issues,” she asked, “or your adopted son punches a hole in your wall because of his traumatic past? You’re going need people to support you.”