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In 2024, I held my first Margarita Mile. I’ve done more since then. It’s simple. I invite a group of friends. Using sidewalk chalk, I mark a start line and…

We've made it all the way from the overstepping of Orpheus, the land, and poetry into something our own lives can do (spill over as though water from a fountain--or,…

Encouraged, not only by the burgeoning online-use of Oldenburg’s term "third place," but by a young person’s desire to engage with it, I decided to reach out to Madison.

Building community doesn’t map well into the high value we place on choice at the individual level.

In a fragmented age increasingly seduced by the cult of the self, "Wuthering Heights" challenges us to reclaim the difficult virtues that make real community possible.

A team is from somewhere. Owners sell, players leave, but the place and the fans make up the fabric of the team.

There is something life-giving about rooting oneself in a single community—about investing ourselves in a mutual fund, so to speak.

The rift isn’t just about politics. It’s about pace, and place, and respect.

You have to cut through the glitzy, loud elements—the carnival rides and the tractor pulls and the cotton candy—to see the heart of the fair...

For most people, that’s where their focus on their image ends—they’ve made themselves presentable. But for some, that morning routine was only the beginning.

Impressed by this unusual way of cultivating community in a city—NYC, that is—known for its “alone together” anonymity, I decided to reach out

Trust in rural places isn’t built on virtue; it’s built on visibility. It’s knowing you’ll see the person again.

Those who had previously greeted me with smiles and handshakes find ways to hint through word and deed that I am no longer one of them ...

The lessons of murmuration are clear. There is power and safety in community

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

Because of coffee’s popularity, coffee shops can draw people together like very few other modern institutions.

And so, feeling blessed by the rich experiences of my ministry, I stand at the start of a new year in the dying days of the old one.

Decades of sorrow and searching for clinical evidence have strengthened his resolve, tempered now by experiences that add up to more than disparate bits of empirical data.

He took the words of Jesus to heart—he rarely judged others. When he passed this year, he left a memory not of condemnation, but of mercy.

College football is a local endeavor that should be enacted by those with a connection to that place.

Are we capable of that on a scale that will regenerate our political life? Perhaps not, at least for now, but we can take heart from the knowledge that, over…

But I suspect that this stirring book will strike a chord with many readers of Front Porch Republic.

I am not sure if Garfield ever made chili for his supporters. The men and women who descended on his property were there to meet a future president. What Garfield…

I mourn the storm. It’s far from over. But I also do not mourn without hope.