How do we define who and what constitutes our community?

Julian Zelizer grew up without a strong sense of having any identity but his parents’ son, he says.

Zelizer: I relished this arrangement because my parents were smart, funny, caring, and indulgent people.

He says the pull of community is greater than he would have ever guessed as a teenager. One needs to belong to more than one ’s family, he writes.

It is all well and good to share interests with likeminded people, but I recognized that I was identifying with increasingly obscure, specialized, and, above all, superficial groups.

At the Lord’s Table, I found myself tethered to a community defined by faith—the sort of community that I had been seeking for so long.