Communities #201: Privacy and Transparency

Communities #201 Winter 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #201, Privacy and Transparency, explores the interplay between guardedness and openness in sharing ourselves and our lives, both within community and in relation to the wider...

The Ecstatic Communion and Revelatory Foibles of Sun House

Review By Chris Roth (excerpted from Communities #201, Winter 2023, pages 50-57; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) Sun House David James Duncan Little, Brown & Company, 2023, 784 pages. I love this book. I rarely read, let alone recommend, 784-page...
Communities #199: Freedom and Responsibility

Communities #199: Freedom and Responsibility

Communities #199 Summer 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #199 explores different ways of balancing Freedom and Responsibility in community. Authors describe a wide range of approaches to community participation, money, childrearing,...
Communities #191: Ecological Culture

Communities #191: Ecological Culture

Communities #191 Summer 2021 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Our Summer 2021 issue of Communities, #191, focuses on Ecological Culture. Articles range from in-depth stories of ecovillage life, to examinations of the role of language in culture, to...
Common Community Quirks

Common Community Quirks

By Amber Jones Life is different in intentional community. You’ll see big differences between caring for one small family or your individual self and the level of accountability asked in a group full of needs and preferences that don’t always match yours. You’ll see...