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Let's Get Together 4

vol. 5, num. 16 :: 2006.09.08 — 2006.09.22

Celebrating four years of bi-weekly online publishing with another look at the multitude of ways in which we receive and proliferate the gift of community.

 

Feature

Somewhat unreal communities

Critics of virtual community laud the face-to-face experience, but what happens virtual reality comes to church?

Editorial

Community in the country

Practicing Resurrection 2006 gathers like-minded folks from diverse places and backgrounds.

Articles

Com-unity

An overview of community principles practiced at The Hermitage Community.

Coffee community

On the connection between feeling at home in a place and finding a good place for coffee.

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A good kind of stuck

Unlikely community emerges on the other side of a record-breaking January snowstorm.

Squeezing the grape, acidic urine and the intentional fallacy

On how vocabulary fosters a sense of community.

Mysticism in community

Does the quest for the presence of God take place in isolation?

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Reviews

Redemption on the road

A review of Little Miss Sunshine.

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Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Celebrating unity and difference

An interview with Larry Edward Kamphausen, member of the Community of the Holy Trinity and pastor at the Church of Jesus Christ, Reconciler in Chicago.

A room in God?s house

A collection of impressions of what happened when a Philadelphia Presbyterian church opened its doors to an artists-in-residence program.

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Fleeing community

For reasons of bad theology to bad taste, sometimes it?s easier to flee than fight.

Weaving the web

Reba Place Fellowship

An intentional Christian community, nearly 50 years old, in Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago.

 

Cargo karma

James Howard Kunstler on the effects of corporate retail chains on local communities.

 

A cup of life

Dean Nelson writes about the power of clean water to cultivate community in the Dominican Republic.

 
 

Columns

Default

The sound of transition

A move to Pennsylvania from Michigan inspires a meaningful mix CD.

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