Your Mission: Building Communities

A collection of resources to help you build community in your law school and surrounding area.

Resources


Books

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (1938)

Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953)

Robert J. Banks, Paul’s Idea of Community: Spirit and Culture in Early House Churches (1979)

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981)

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1998)

Tomáš Halík – Patience With God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing in Us (2009)

Jeffrey Stout, Blessed are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America (2012)

Michael Kruger, Surviving Religion 101: Letters to a Christian Student Keeping the Faith in College (2021)


Articles

Building Communities by Mike Schutt

Power of Community by Abby M. McCloskey & Aparna Mathur

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