Everybody Needs Someone to Talk To

Marc Horowitz is convinced that everybody needs someone to talk to. What convinced him were the thousands of dinner invitations he received as a result ...

Horses Prefer Risk to Loneliness

The Horse Whisperer was a movie based upon the work of Monty Roberts. In the book The Shaping of Things to Come, by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, the ...

Sam Rayburn Defined Community

Years ago, when speaker of the house Sam Rayburn heard he had terminal cancer, he shocked everyone when he announced he was going back to his small town ...

Dead Man Lacked Community

In the September 20, 2004, issue of MacLean's magazine, Lianne George recounts this tragic story:

One November day in 2002, Jim Sulkers, a 53-year-old ...

Ministry Is Effective One at a Time

The best ministry moments don't arrange themselves neatly in my pre-planned activities. They usually spill out of spontaneous encounters at a critical ...

We Were Meant to Live in Little Platoons

When he left Rivendell, Frodo didn't head out with 1,000 Elves. He had eight companions. Jesus didn't march around backed by hundreds of followers, ...

The Feast That Cost Everything

There's a wonderful story by Isak Dinesen called Babette's Feast, about a strict, dour, fundamentalist community in Denmark. Babette works as ...

House Built for Dysfunctional Families

The Ledbetter family likes to spend time at home together, —just not in the same room. So they built a 3,600-square-foot house with special rooms for ...

"Lord of the Rings" Taught Viggo Mortensen About Community

The lesson is the union with others is more significant than your individual existence. It doesn't deny the importance of your individual existence; ...

Pastor Challenges the Church to Be Colorblind

[James] Meeks [pastor of Salem Baptist Church in Chicago] hopes to persuade African American and white evangelicals to work together. And he's willing ...