The Un-Fragmented Life
Four suggestions for how to escape the brave new world. Liz HorstLiz Horst studied music and English literature at Grove…
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Communion
Sometimes, you can’t know you’ve been lonely until you are loved. Sarah ClarksonSarah Clarkson is an author, blogger, and student…
Fixing a Place
You have to love a place–not an idealized Place–before you can fix it. Brian BrownBrian Brown loves building the environments,…
The Importance of Spontaneity
Good social media is like the good life: unplanned. Brian BrownBrian Brown loves building the environments, habits, and networks that…
Detention with the Outcasts
Real community challenges our assumptions about the value of choice and the role of ideals. Esther MoonEsther Moon, a 2010…
In Defense of Chief Justice Roberts
Zachary Crippen: A defeat for Republicans in the short run; a victory for conservatives in the long run. Zac CrippenZac,…
Community as We Know It, Not as We Wish It
James Banks: Joe Carter vs. Front Porch Republic…we need to consider “community” as particular places, not as an ideology. James…
Politics and Church Community
You can’t have the second without the first. Not because it’s an inevitable evil, but because without politics there can…
That’s Not Real Freedom
Miriel M. Thomas Earlier this month, the Supreme Court decided Snyder v. Phelps, a case involving the Westboro Baptist Church’s…
Intentional Community and the yuppie in me
Harmony Hazard, 24, wanted “A safe place for book groups and hula hoops”; Sara Teitelbaum, 23, wanted “People to bring…