An Unofficial and Useless Guide to Building Community | Sojourners

An Unofficial and Useless Guide to Building Community

Every societal issue can be solved with a good list.
Illustration by Melanie Lambrick

STUDY AFTER STUDY and book after book tells you that modern society has a community-support problem. People are lonelier and more isolated than ever and are expected to solve these collective and societal problems by themselves. But you don’t have to do this alone. You can do this with the support of my handy guide to community building!

Allow me to propose some ideas for how to create your own community-support network when every thread in the fabric of American society seems designed to keep you from it.

□ Search relevant terms on Google such as: “What is community?” and “What is community support?” Start a discussion group to answer these questions. Congratulations! You now have a community of people who love to argue in circles. Consider turning this into a Bible study.

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