My siblings are rolling into town with their families. For the next few days, we’ll all pack into my dad’s house to celebrate Christmas together for the first time since my mom died in 2024. In some ways, we’ll revert to the family roles we’ve played our whole lives. But I’m also conscious that the center of gravity in our family has shifted, and we’re still rebalancing.

Some people see their adult siblings all the time or talk to them multiple times a week. Others see them every other Christmas or not at all. For many of us, our sibling relationships will be the longest relationships of our lives. In spite of this, I’ve never seen a Barnes & Noble display table showcasing books on how to get along with adult siblings. We’re left to figure it out ourselves.

That’s why I was especially grateful for the Deep Dish episode “Siblings, Young and Old.” In it, Jen Wilkin, Courtney Doctor, and Melissa Kruger talk about their relationships with their brothers and about how they tried to foster good sibling relationships among their own children.

New-covenant believers are expected to relate to each other as brothers and sisters, and we’ve not been left to our own devices to know how. We have God’s Word to guide us and the Holy Spirit at work within us. If anyone should be talking about sibling relationships, it’s Christ-followers.