Family and Community are equally important

The opposite ends of the political spectrum emphasise community and family more than the other.

Both miss the point. We can’t reduce ourselves down to individual units within a community as the communists and socialists would do.

But we also can’t segregate ourselves by family as those on the right would.

We need to have families as the smallest social unit, that is God given. But we then need those families to be linked in like-minded communities.

Ideally those communities are based around something like a church. It sets a basic expectation of belief in the same things and holding the same values.

Two challenges to this are consumerism and the ease of movement. We treat churches like a product to consume, not a community to enter into. We also live further from our churches and those we should form community with.