I recently read The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam. It’s a fascinating, dense, and data grounded book - there's around a hundred pages of citations. I wrote some about what it has to say about isolation, solidarity, and religious groups.
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What The Upswing says about Society, Isolation, Solidarity, and the Church
Last year I joined a biweekly book club – organized by MCC alumni Mike Roberts – where each member leads a meeting by sharing on a book that they’ve found interesting or insightfu…
