Community

Leroy Barber 9-19-2008
I believe that every dedicated family following Jesus is a great instrument for the kingdom of God. A family serving together is a picture of God's love and grace.
Shane Claiborne 9-02-2008

[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]

Vonetta and Jason, first I want you to know that I am deeply grateful for the conversation you've invited and stirred with our private conversations and now

[see all posts in this conversation on New Monastics and race.]

In August 2006, before having ever heard the term "new monasticism," my husband, Jason, and I founded Radical Living, an intentional community in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. When I (Vonetta) was 12 years old, I emigrated from Guyana to [...]

Bart Campolo 5-09-2008

There are plenty of times I miss running a legitimate ministry organization like Mission Year.

Tapping the reservoirs of church and community.
Gina Joseph 3-01-2008

I just finished Jim Wallis’ thought-provoking editorial “A Real ‘Values’ Agenda” (January 2008).

E.J. Dionne Jr. 3-01-2008

Building a new politics on the old values of generosity, compassion, and community.

Tom Sine 1-01-2008

How to live as if another world were already here.

Barrios Unidos isn’t what most people would think of when they hear the phrase “faith-based organization.” Even though it’s not aligned with any church or traditional religi

Ed Spivey Jr. 9-01-2007
Our neighborhood has changed. It's now delicious.
Jill Suzanne Shook 2-01-2007

Affordable housing is vital for working people- and for the health of our communities.

Rose Marie Berger 7-01-2006
Soon the first stars will move tentatively into the field of sky.
Molly Marsh 6-01-2006

A New Season

Tom Philpott 5-01-2006

Wander into Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood on a Saturday morning in summer and you’ll see a sight not uncommon in New York City these days: a thriving and well-diversified farmers market.

Neighborhood denizens cluster around stands offering free-range meat, raw-milk cheese, cream-on-top milk, and a whole array of fresh fruit and vegetables—many of them grown right down the block from the market.

Yet unlike most of New York’s bustling greenmarkets, which tend to thrive in upscale residential and shopping areas, this one lies in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Red Hook’s median family income is $15,000—below the federal poverty line of $19,000. Forty percent of the neighborhood’s families live on less than $10,000 per year. The unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds stands at 75 percent.

In fact, not many outsiders wander into Red Hook. When New York City’s legendary city planner Robert Moses patched together plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the 1940s, he decided to spare aristocratic Brooklyn Heights and its stately brownstones, sending the BQE along the waterfront at that point. Just south, though, he let the road slice right into working-class Red Hook, leaving it shoehorned between a traffic-choked highway on one side and New York Harbor on the other.

Letter to the Editors