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In defense of the common congregation

Scott Hagley suggests small congregations as places for cultivating communities of abundance and care, as common places for social healing and spiritual renewal.

People filling plates at a summer barbeque

Despite an invisibility made possible by their ubiquity, the quiet, ordinary churches that have sat– and still sit – on the corners of sometimes-overlooked spaces are where we can cultivate communities of abundance and care, social healing and spiritual renewal.


One Saturday afternoon this past June, 40 people in the Kenmore neighborhood of Akron, Ohio, gathered for what they hope will become an annual summer festival. People...

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