There is another way to find belonging
Page 297. There is another way to find belonging. There is another way to find meaning and purpose. There is another vision of a healthy society. It is through relationalism.
— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)
In the book
A community, at its heart, is nothing more complicated than a group of people who care about something and pursue it together. The strongest of them are thick — built around a shared moral cause, treating their members not as resources to be used but as fellow travelers on a common mission, with the relationships themselves set at the very center of the enterprise. You build that kind of community on purpose: by holding conversations that dwell on possibilities rather than problems — what could we make together, what talents here have gone unused; by giving it a dependable way of gathering, a regular method that reliably brings people together; and by binding it with the smallest shared rituals, the way even a pot of soup, dressed in a little ceremony, can manufacture belonging. — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)