Finding Our Way

The Paradox and Promise of Community

with Myron Rogers

We human beings have a great need for one another. As described by the West African writer and teacher Malidoma Somé, we have “an instinct of community. “ However, this instinct to be together is devolving into growing fragmentation and separation. We experience increasing ethnic wars, community battle grounds, and self-serving special interest groups.

We are using the instinct of community to separate and protect us from one another, rather than creating a global culture of diverse yet interwoven communities. We search for those most like us in order to protect ourselves from the rest of society. Clearly, we cannot get to a future worth inhabiting through these separating paths. Our great ...