Jesus tells us to love our neighbors. But what if you don’t know your neighbors? (And in our suburbs, you often don’t.) These guys have some ideas
You might want to look at their main page as well…
The View from the Foothills
A tiny principality in the Commonwealth of Letters
The View from the Foothills 
The thing is, knowing your neighbors used to be a more automatic thing, whereas now one has to make some special effort and even use a little imaginaion. It also takes some courage to make that first effort because you never know how you will be received. Some people aren’t that comfortable with such unsolicited attention.
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Right. Most people respond coldly to casual knockers on their door, especially those who wish to “do them good”; and the same is true for people out shopping. It’s one thing to chat with someone in the check-out line about something right in front of the pair of you; it’s quite another to try to strike up a friendship.
But the bigger problem is that there are too darned many of them!
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