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Robert Wuthnowdirects the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is author of Loose Connections: Joining Together in America's Fragmented Communities (Harvard, 1998).

See today's related article," The New Civic Family." Bowlingalone.com has detailed information about the decline of community, reviews of Putnam's book, an interview with the author, lists of ways Americans can reconnect with one another, and a number of excellent related links.Robert Putnam's original Journal of Democracy article" Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" is available online. Bowling Alone is available from Amazon.com and other book retailers.Wuthnow's home page at Princeton offers a listing of his books and links to a number of his articles.Last year, Wuthnow was one of the panelists on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio program titled " In God We Trust: Civil and Uncivil Religion in America." He was also a guest on a 1997 PBS Newshour segment dealing with American spirituality.Leadership, our sister publication, looks at how one church is building community from scratch, shows how to connect women in communities, and examines the quest for community. Beliefnet reports on how one woman is trying to maintain her identity in the midst of a church community. An article posted by a British writer looks at the meaning of Christian community in our postmodern age. A speech delivered by John Perkins at the Family Research Council looks at Christian community development.

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June 12 2000, Vol. 44, No. 7