Introduction: Where everybody knows your name
Definitions: What is belonging?
The special need for civic belonging
Signs, instruments, and foretastes of belonging
Kingdom belonging: The character of kingdom belonging
The character of worldly belonging
The shape of kingdom belonging
Strangers and kingdom belonging
Kingdom and covenant belonging
The gospel and belonging: The promise of community
The promise of homecoming
Excursus: Place attachment
The promise of a good story
Excursus: Thick and thin language
A crisis of belonging: Three pieces of glass: The crisis of belonging in relationships
The declining civic realm: The crisis of belonging in places
Busy: The crisis of belonging in story
The shapes choices take: Communally shaped choices
Liturgically shaped choices
Encouraging belonging: Belonging by design
Belonging through proximity
Belonging and local culture
Conclusion: Belonging to the God who knows your name.
