Together with Lauren Mapp
Together
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 15 minutes
Lauren Mapp, the award-winning journalist in San Diego, CA, joins Jack Eason to discuss navigating the loneliness of the elderly during the coronavirus global pandemic. She details steps San Diego County took to keep in touch with seniors at this time through regular, consistent phone calls.
Lauren holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in American Indian studies from San Diego State University, and she has three associate degrees in journalism, political science, and culinary arts/management from San Diego Mesa College. She writes as an investigative reporting intern at inewsource, a contributing editor for Times of San Diego and a freelance writer for North Coast Current.
She writes online at https://laurenjmapp.com and her blog at http://www.offthemappblog.com
Lauren's LinkedIn page is found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenjmapp/
Grab your copy of Jack Eason's latest book TOGETHER: Abandoning Loneliness for the Power of Community at https://www.jackeason.org/books/#loneliness
Statistics show that, despite our connected world--and partly because of it--we are lonelier than ever. Social media tricks us into thinking that we are engaged in genuine friendships, except we never quite get beyond that feeling of being outside someone else's life and looking in every so often at what they choose to show the world. Instead of intimacy we get little more than what amounts to digital small talk. But there is a solution.
With plenty of good humor and practical advice, Jack Eason invites you to discover the benefits of doing life together with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Grounding his message in Scripture, Eason helps you
- learn the obstacles to real community
- reimagine what real friendship looks like
- discover a place of true belonging
- and more
If you're tired of feeling lonely, this encouraging and community-building book is just what you need.
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