Communities #203: Conflict and Connection

Communities #203 Summer 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #203, Summer 2024, “Conflict and Connection,” explore the gifts as well as the challenges of conflict—the opportunities it offers to deepen our connections, to...

Lost and Found in the Valley

By Emily Grubman (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 16-17; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) The following is adapted from a blog entry titled “Letter *to* Lost Valley” posted September 11, 2023 at...

Journey To and Through Communities

By Riana Good (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 10-12; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) It was July of 2016, a damp, cool day in the foothills of the White Mountains. I poured a steaming mug of tea and nestled into a pale, overstuffed...

Communities #201: Privacy and Transparency

Communities #201 Winter 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #201, Privacy and Transparency, explores the interplay between guardedness and openness in sharing ourselves and our lives, both within community and in relation to the wider...
Communities #199: Freedom and Responsibility

Communities #199: Freedom and Responsibility

Communities #199 Summer 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #199 explores different ways of balancing Freedom and Responsibility in community. Authors describe a wide range of approaches to community participation, money, childrearing,...
Communities #192: Consent

Communities #192: Consent

Communities #192 Fall 2021 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. In issue #192, “Consent,” authors examine how this theme applies within our personal lives, our lives in community, and in the wider culture. Stories explore how to learn healthy...