The last couple of days I’ve shared some excerpts from a Plough Quarterly interview with Stanley Hauerwas on the idea of community, particularly as it can be “played out” in Christian faith and practice.  Now for something related and yet completely different.

At the end of the first-ever episode of Community, Jeff Winger (played by Joel McHale) has to find some way to bring a disparate group of people together in some significant way.  True: his motives are all off.  But also true: what he says about our ability to empathize and connect (and even to extend forgiveness to one another) has a certain inspiring quality to it.  Here’s the clip.  See if you feel what Abed feels, too.