The Nordic model has implemented some of the highest standards of living on the planet. While the Norwegian state has mitigated physical pain and suffering through its social welfare programs, it has failed to circumvent psychological or social pain for its citizens as indicated by high indexes of anxiety, depression, and loneliness in Norwegians. Christian youth communities, particularly in the southern and western regions of the country, however, provide an alternative to the impersonality of the Norwegian state by creating localities where relationships formed around shared goals flourish. Drawing from the field research I conducted at a Christian summer youth camp in southern Norway in 2017, I suggest that high standards of living in Norway have fomented competition, self-reliance, and isolation for many of the young Norwegians I studied, but the localized Christian communities they participate in offer them spaces for mutuality, vulnerability, and relationship. In imagining futures concerning “the good life,” I argue that these localities, and others like them, will provide avenues for generating purpose, meaning, and community in increasingly disintegrated social worlds. I also suggest that anthropology can benefit from aspects of theological discourse, particularly those concerning ethnographic-engagement with religious communities, as anthropologists interact with ontologies that call for different ways of qualifying an “anthropology of the good.”