A review of The Virtue of Dialogue by Christopher Smith.
The community that drinks together, stays together.
Why going to college shouldn’t be like eating at McDonald’s.
Remembering the origins of the magazine after ten years of publishing.
Reflecting on glimpses of community during a three-week journey.
Exploring biblical themes for living life well together.
How to create beloved community on your block.
Remembering the joys and challenges of a small town ritual.
A reflection on the longing for community in a new place.
In praise of an architectural feature and the habits it engenders.
A personal history told through the lens of newspapers.
Continuing a family legacy (in certain ways) of reading the Grand Rapids Press.
An art director and illustrator speaks to fellow artists from experience.
Recounting some of the year’s most hopeful, creative, generous, adventurous, expectant...
A post-crisis reflection on getting things in order.
Ten reasons to support *cino from wherever you are.
Happiness is the best tool for fostering a healthy community.
Integrating exercise into building a closer and more vibrant community.
On the paradoxes of lament and hope, destruction and creation, failure and commitment.
What have we gained and what have we lost in our progress beyond the one-room school?
On the benefits and challenges of technology.
From slumming chocolate bark as a child to raising money for meaningful cause as an adult.
Lessons learned from modern serfdom in a friend’s garden.
Or how to have awesome kids and make it look like you did all the work.
Experiencing community at a temporary table in the city.
Lessons from a lifetime lived in connection with friends and family.
Confronting the luxury of DIY porn.
16 theses toward understanding sacred space in the context of the biblical narrative.
Walking the pilgrim’s path between the cathedral and the bar.
Just say “no” to working too much.