EPISODE · Jun 28, 2025 · 48 MIN
How Friendships Can Drive Spiritual Growth
from The Pocket Contemplative · host Dave Schmelzer
Dave Schmelzer and Curtis Gruenler (an English professor and medievalist) have been friends since college and they talk about the ins and outs of how friendships themselves can empower the kind of growth in God that we talk about on The Pocket Contemplative.Mentioned on this podcast:If you'd like to register interest in October's (free, eight-week) Faith Part 2 course, let us know here.Curtis is launching a Substack on friendship (from a medievalist's perspective)Curtis and Dave allude in passing to:Spiritual Friendship by the medieval monk Aelred of RievaulxRene Girard and his Shakespeare book Theater of Envy
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Dave Schmelzer and Curtis Gruenler (an English professor and medievalist) have been friends since college and they talk about the ins and outs of how friendships themselves can empower the kind of growth in God that we talk about on The Pocket Contemplative. Mentioned on this podcast: If you'd like to register interest in October's (free, eight-week) Faith Part 2 course, let us know here. Curtis is launching a Substack on friendship (from a medievalist's perspective) Curtis and Dave allud...
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