Bodies in Isolation
Being immersed in mainstream culture and isolated from supportive, body-positive communities can prevent choice and body-awareness exploration. But living in a supportive community can make alternative choices and attitudes easier to sustain.
What Can We Learn from the Amish?
Touch the soil, live simply, and be satisfied with “enough”: it’s worked for the Amish for almost 300 years and it can work for us as well.
Communities of Intention in Peru, Ecuador, and Beyond: A Summer of Travel and Rediscovering Communal Roots
As a college project, a child of intentional community explores how others define community, discovering that organic community spaces are possible everywhere.
Notes from the Editor: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
It’s still possible to make it a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
It’s Not Just the Curtain: Crossing the Class Divide at the Bloomington Catholic Worker
Distinctions and boundaries between community members and their homeless guests can be problematic sometimes, but they are also what allow the sharing and caring to continue.