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b'This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, we\\u2019re kicking off the new year by featuring a special guest: Tim Soerens, author and co-founder of the Parish Collective. Last year, Chuck read Tim\\u2019s books The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community and Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are\\u2014and even recommended them to his priest!\\nIf you\\u2019re not Christian or not religious, don\\u2019t worry: Tim\\u2019s not here to preach, but rather to talk about community, and the position of churches within a community. His organization, the Parish Collective, is a network of place-based churches and small community groups who are all wrestling with the question of how to reconnect churches with their neighborhoods. Furthermore, they\\u2019re encouraging people to consider what part locally connected churches can play in the strengthening and holistic renewal of a place over time.\\nStrong Towns is, of course, a secular organization. Still, we love hearing about how faith communities and other groups are adopting a Strong Towns approach to tackling the problems in their neighborhoods. In that spirit we hope that you, too, will enjoy this first Strong Towns Podcast episode of 2022.'