“Community is the only antidote we have to an individualism that is fast approaching the heights of the pathological…”Joan Chittister, a Benedictine sister, warned in 1990. Now, thirty years later, we’ve arrived on those pitiful peaks–lost to each other, lost to ourselves, lost to God....
“When you wish upon a star your dreams come true,” crooned the mocking voice in my head. I focused my desperation not on the cricket, but on the God who awakens our dreams. “Is it all a lie? Do our prayers, do we, matter to you? Are we left to hide from our longings, to...