The problem of faith in our time is the problem of unbelief among believers. Faith is no longer believable to, nor livable for, many in our age. Why? Why is Christ known but not really believed in? Fr. Ron Rolheiser writes that conservatives blame our present malaise upon lack of prayer and the failure of our age to keep the commandments, pure and simple. If we don’t pray and our moral lives are shabby, how can we expect to have a vital faith? Liberals point to slow renewal within the church as the cause. We are not really renewed, they argue. We still pray to God, talk about God, and worship God in mythical and medieval images. We live modern lives but try to live an old-time religion. Ultimately, this freezes God out of all the important areas of life. Religion becomes the great art form, and the church becomes the great museum. Social justice advocates submit that the problem is one of affluence. If Christ made a preferential option for the poor and Christianity is seeing life from the bottom, it is, quite simply, impossible to live as affluently and selfishly as we do and still have a vital connection to Christ. There is some truth in each of these, but, in the end, the real reason for the erosion of faith and hope in Christ is something beyond all of these. What, singularly, are we missing today within Christianity that could make us credible to the world and to our own families? Community. The greatest need in our time is, as Jim Wallis puts it, “not simply for kerygma, the preaching of the Gospel; nor for Diakonia; service on behalf of justice; nor for charisma, the experience of the spirit’s gifts; nor even for prophesies; the challenging of the King. The greatest need of our time is for Koinonia, the call simply to be church. To offer to the world a living, breathing, loving community of the church. This is the foundation of all answers.” When there is a strong experience of community, there is generally a strong faith. RCIA groups, Cursillo groups, marriage encounter groups, social justice groups, charismatic groups, Bible study groups, third order groups. These are pockets of fervor within the church, and it is no accident that all of them are linked to strong community experiences. Christianity, in the end, is a communal endeavor. We believe in it when community works, we stop believing in it when community and family breakdown. Our primary task today is to live community. If we can do that, then the visible body of Christ, the church, will have an incredible resurrection.