Lost and Found in the Valley

By Emily Grubman (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 16-17; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) The following is adapted from a blog entry titled “Letter *to* Lost Valley” posted September 11, 2023 at...

Journey To and Through Communities

By Riana Good (excerpted from Communities #202, Spring 2024, pages 10-12; see illustrated layout in pdf format here) It was July of 2016, a damp, cool day in the foothills of the White Mountains. I poured a steaming mug of tea and nestled into a pale, overstuffed...

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 #200: Adaptation

Communities #200: Adaptation

Communities #200 Fall 2023 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #200, Adaptation, explores how we as individuals, as groups, and as a species can adapt to changing circumstances, both internal and external. Articles describe experiences with...
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,...