Common Life After Social Collapse

May 6th, 2026 | 6 min read

Chris Smaje. Finding Lights in a Dark Age: Sharing Land, Work and Craft. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2025. $24.95. 256 pp.

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Andrew Spencer

Andrew Spencer serves as associate editor for books at The Gospel Coalition. He is the author of Hope for God’s Creation: Stewardship in an Age of Futility and Doctrine in Shades of Green: Theological Perspective for Environmental Ethics, editor of The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis: Essays in Honor of Michael Travers, and a contributor to Baptist Political Theology. Spencer is an elder at CrossPointe Church. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children and live in southeast Michigan.

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