Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our
communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations,
churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own
worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but
end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential
contributions lost.
This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to
envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what
healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there,
and they've been described in detail.
What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the
exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community
built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are
involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an
opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us
can do to make that happen.