Establishing Zion
The Community section is where the conversation the book begins continues in the open. Establishing Zion: Foundations for a Millennial Society identifies principles and examines their implications — but the work of actually building Zion communities is collective, generational, and unfinished. This section is designed for those who want to engage that work together.
Four components make up the Community section. From the Author is an ongoing journal where Lawrence Walters reflects on questions the book raises but does not fully resolve — the implications still being worked out, the applications still being tested. Reader Perspectives gathers essays and reflections from community members who are thinking seriously about what Zion requires in their own circumstances. Discussion hosts threaded conversations tied to specific chapters and foundation stones, seeded with the integrative questions from the book's concluding chapter. Resources provides access to slide decks, essays, and other materials that extend the book's conversations into other formats and contexts.
The author's inaugural entry in From the Author — drawing on the river dam metaphor from the book's Introduction and President Kimball's three requirements for establishing Zion — will be published at launch. The Discussion threads will open with five integrative questions from Chapter 13 that draw on the full arc of the book. Both are invitations to the same conversation: not what Zion is, but what it will take — from us, together, now.
Establishing Zion Community Group
