Monthly Archives: June 2015

Like everyone else in the country, I was stunned by the shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last week.  Having grown up in the South, race relations always have been front and center in my thinking and feeling.  … Continue reading →

Got this quote from a church member’s Chipotle cup: “The ancient human social construct that once was common in this land was called community.  We lived among our villagers, depending on them for what we needed.  If we had a … Continue reading →

Author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was raised in the northeast, but on a trip to north Florida in her 30s, she fell in love with the backwoods area known as Cross Creek.  She bought several acres and set up a homestead … Continue reading →

Three ideas from the first section of Community and Growth:  “Community as belonging”  (13-18) (1)  To be human is to long for community.  Our longing for community begins in utero.  The minute we are born, we long for and seek the … Continue reading →