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We Need Each Other

Leave a Comment / analogies, community / Ken Wytsma

My favorite analogy lately has been this: A running back without an offensive line couldn’t gain a yard. Neither can a person without friends and community or a leader without a team and volunteers. We all need each other! (Here is where I’d put in one of those animated huggy smiley faces if I knew […]

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The Eagle’s Curse

Leave a Comment / community, G.K. Chesterton, loneliness, Quotes / Ken Wytsma

Last night I shared a quote from G.K. Chesterton (the late British journalist) in a talk I was giving on community. Chesterton wrote, “The eagle knows no liberty, he only knows loneliness.” The eagle is the symbol of freedom and liberty. It is a truly American symbol. Yet in a country that is struggling with

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