400 Friends and No One to Call: Breaking through Isolation and Building Community

We can be well connected, with 400 friends on Facebook and still have no one to count on. Ironically, despite social media, social isolation is a growing epidemic in the United States. The National Science Foundation reported in 2014 that the number of Americans with no close friends has tripled since 1985. One out of four Americans has no one with whom they can talk about their personal troubles.



Social isolation can shatter our confidence. In isolating times, we're not only lonely, but we...