Tag Archives: community

Loneliness: The Pandemic Inside the Pandemic

Loneliness is a big problem, and the pandemic is making it worse. Here’s how an article on Vox puts it: The coronavirus pandemic has created a loneliness epidemic. Social distancing, while necessary from a public health standpoint, has caused a collapse in social contact among family, friends, and entire communities — one that is particularly […]

We need support now more than ever … and it’s getting harder to find

“Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.”– Stanley Hauerwas   “To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us […]