In Forum’s latest fall 2025 issue, Aurelia O’Neil of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi offers a thoughtful review of The Friendship Bench, Dixon Chibanda’s account of a program he started in his native Zimbabwe to use park benches as sources of community for those in special need of human connection. If you missed the review, you can read it here.

Where do you find community in your part of the world? For Forum editor Danny Heitman, it’s often the local library, where he can find fellow writers and compare notes about their shared work.

Where do you find community where you live? A place of worship? A local club? A sports league at a nearby park?  Share your thoughts  with us and join the conversation.

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