Saturday, December 18, 2010

Community Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Community

We expect a theophany of which we know nothing but the place, and the place is called community

Those words by Martin Buber, from Between Man and Men, serve as the epigraph for an essay titled A Place Called Community, the fourth chapter of the recently revised new edition of Parker Palmer's 1980 book The Promise of Paradox

Recently I have been thinking lot about community, especially about this community, as once again we have people offering angry explanations about why they are leaving it. Once again - we went through that in each of