Flourishing in Fragmented Places: Overcoming the Isolation That Impacts Our Problems

The design of many US cities, neighborhoods, and churches makes it difficult to know people or help each other. In communities built for fast driving, people have to schedule physical movement, experiences of beauty, and church-life connection. This isolated way of life threatens our health, harms us spiritually, and makes counseling problems worse. In this session, we’ll consider what it looks like to inhabit our spaces differently, in incremental and practical ways, orienting all of life toward the love of God and neighbor.