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By Joey Ager Where do you most experience a sense of belonging? Perhaps it’s in your favorite chair at home, in your church sanctuary, your local coffee shop, or among the crowd supporting your local team. In these social spaces, that feeling of belonging is not an accident, it’s a feature of how those spaces have been shaped over time by the people who interact with them. The physical and social characteristics of spaces of all kinds - cities, neighborhoods, churches, parks, homes - both...

By Zoe Forbes Leaders from more than 10 congregations across Olympia have spent the past two years gathering monthly as Olympia Commons , gathering around the shared question: what becomes possible when we move and work together? In this video, they share what has emerged from this “commons” approach, grounded in local relationships and a shared sense of place .