Did you know that loneliness is contagious? A recent Denver Post headline read “Loneliness can spread like a cold;” the article was based on a federally-funded ten-year study of the power of one person’s emotions to affect friends, family, and neighbors. Though it sounds counterintuitive, loneliness can be transmitted across people, even without direct contact, leaving them feeling desolate and on the periphery of social networks. A Harvard Medical School professor notes, “Something so personal as a person’s emotions can have a collective existence and affect the vast fabric of humanity.”
Series: Handling Our Humanness
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Scripture: Mark 6:30-39
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