Author and speaker Emily Jaminet returns to the Catholic Morning Show to explain why spiritual friendship — not just social connection — is essential to a life of holiness. Drawing on her book The Friendship Project, she shares three practical habits: greeting someone new after Mass, a weekly "Friendship Friday," and praying with friends in the moment instead of just promising to. As families head back to school, Emily offers parents concrete ways to model faith-filled friendship their kids can carry into adulthood.
Emily Jaminet — author, speaker, and co-founder of Inspire the Faith — joins Bo Bonner to talk about spiritual friendship, drawing from her book The Friendship Project: The Catholic Woman's Guide to Making and Keeping Fabulous, Faith-Filled Friends, co-written with Michele Faehnle with a foreword by Fr. Larry Richards (Ave Maria Press). Emily explains why being "well-connected" on social media isn't the same as having true, faith-rooted friendships, and why the saints show us that "saints beget saints."
She shares three practical, doable habits listeners can start this week:
Emily also talks about setting kids up for lifelong spiritual friendship as they head back to school — through family dinners, Sunday night prayer, and modeling gratitude — and shares advice for parents sending kids off to college, drawn from a conversation timed to her own son's move-in day.
Learn more and find her books at EmilyJaminet.com, get The Friendship Project from Ave Maria Press, and watch free companion videos at InspireTheFaith.com.
Heard on the Catholic Morning Show, weekdays at 7 a.m. Central on Iowa Catholic Radio. More at IowaCatholicRadio.com.
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