Neighbor to Neighbor Toledo is a 2024 election-year community peace initiative all about love. Loving your neighbor and yourself, and even those who vote differently than you. In an era of political violence and intense rhetoric, we can probably all stand to build relationships with our neighbors. Because if we’re really honest with ourselves, how well do we know the people living right next door to us?

To further the spirit of being neighborly, Neighbor to Neighbor is welcoming notable political and cultural commentator and New York Times columnist David Brooks to Toledo on Tuesday, October 8 at 7 p.m. at the Franciscan Life Center at Lourdes University, where Brooks will discuss his book How to Know a Person. Tickets are available here.

And if you find yourself wanting to find more ways to be neighborly, check out any of the great books below.