This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Anna Friedrich entitled, Friendship and Redemption in the Story of Ruth: How Self-giving Loyalty Changes Everything. 

Anna Friedrich grew up in southern Virginia, playing guitar, frequenting thrift stores, and dreaming of being a missionary in Africa or in the Amazon someday. After a semester abroad in Nairobi, Kenya, and a brief stint studying music, she read one shining paragraph in a book by Steve Garber that mentioned a place in Switzerland called L’Abri, where questions were welcome, so she packed her bags and headed to Europe.

A two-month stay at L’Abri turned into two years, an engagement, a wedding, and a little later – a baby! She went on to work at several churches in the role of Worship Director, but has spent most of her adult life homeschooling her two sons, Cole and Adam (and she may have written one hit youtube song about the periodic table). Anna has been back in L’Abri work since 2013, when she and her family moved to Switzerland to serve there for four years. Since 2017, she has been a part of the Southborough L’Abri team, enjoying a new-found love of poetry, and a new-found ability to cope with winter in New England. She loves to teach the Bible most of all, but also enjoys leading discussions on spiritual disciplines and practices, poetry, creation care, and butterflies.

Anna is currently working towards a Graduate Diploma through Regent College in Canada.

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