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Two Ways of Looking at Community
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Two Ways of Looking at Community

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Two circles superimposed on stock footage of a group of people. These circles represent, respectively, the centre-seeker and the gatekeeper as personality types.

Quickly now—what do an Emo Philips joke, the United Church of Canada, and a recent report on climate change have in common?

Well, they’re all in the above sentence, so that’s a start.

But let’s see if we can pull out a deeper commonality.

Back in 1987, Emo Philips gave the most wonderful performance of a joke sometimes described as being “about religion”—b…

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