Community
HEGE Series
The Church is the unity of all worlds, earthly and heavenly, of angels and men, of the living and the dead. We obtain real communion with God and we participate in God’s uncreated energy. God does not stay in heaven, directing history from there. He directs the world with His uncreated governing energies. We do not aim at appeasing God, but to heal ourselves, so that the vision of God becomes light for us and not fire. Furthermore, in the Church we live eternal life starting from now. We do not simply await the life to come, but we experience and enjoy it from the present. The Kingdom of God, according to the [Church] Fathers, is not life beyond the grave, but communion with God, above all, the vision of the uncreated Light. — Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, The Illness and Cure of the Soul in the Orthodox Tradition
Church as Communion: The Gift and Goal of Koinonia — Philip Kariatlis
Life Together — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Community — Henri Nouwen
Action in Waiting — Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Why We Live In Community — Eberhard Arnold
See — Monasticism, Agrarianism, COM•wiki
Best evangelistic strategy ever: Orthodox Christians living intentionally in Real Community instead of by individualistic dictates of Modernity —
‘Look’ they say ‘how they [Christians] love one another’ (for they themselves hate one another) ‘and how they are ready to die for each other’ (for they themselves are readier to kill each other).
[usually quoted as ‘See how these Christians love one another’]
— Tertullian c.ad 160–c.225
Roman theologian from Carthage
Apologeticus ch. 39 sect. 7
Communalism: from its origins to the Twentieth Century — Kenneth Rexroth
See — 3. The Early Church, Monasticism p 40
Visions of Exile: Christian Communitarianism, Christian Secularism, and Faithful Presence
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World — James Davison Hunter 2010
Aspen Ideas Festival Session: Repairing America's Social Fabric, One Community at a Time
Koinonia: What the Bible Means by "Fellowship"
The People of God: Competing Images of Community and Laity
Orthodox Christian
See — Orthodoxy
Koinonia | Wikipedia
Affirming Koinonia Ecclesiology: An Orthodox Perspective
Koinonia
Chapel of the Holy Spirit: Why Koinonia?
Koinonia At Threat?
Afrriming Koinonia Ecclesiology: An Orthodox Perspective
Koinonia brochure
Community & Industrialism
Man and Woman in Christ (Chapters 18 and 19) — Stephen B. Clark, 1980
Chapter 18 — The New Social Environment: Technological Society
Chapter 19 — The New Intellectual Environment: Ideology and Christianity
Newsletter #13: The Lost World of American Evangelicalism
Newsletter #26: The Fall of the Household
Intentional Community
See — Intentional Community
The Bruderhof
See — The Bruderhof
Country Living
Escape the City: A How-To Homesteading Guide — Volume 1, Volume 2
The case for ditching the city and moving to the country
Escape to the Country: Why City Living Is Losing Its Appeal During the Pandemic
Rural America in the Movies
We Are Weavers
Weave - the social fabric project
Lead With Love
Weave The People
The lies our culture tells us about what matters — and a better way to live | David Brooks
David Brooks on Weave: The Social Fabric Project
Placemaking
The Forgotten Virtue of Stability
What is Placemaking? What if We Built Our Communities Around Places? | Project for Public Spaces
The Geography of Nowhere | Wikipedia — James Howard Kunstler
Collective Living
Collective | Wikipedia
When Living is Expensive, Live Collectively
Gated Community
An exclusive park in the heart of Silicon Valley faces a racial justice reckoning
New Urbanism
American dream increasingly found in cities, not suburbs
Peace & Quiet
Gunman who killed family of four in Arizona, ‘unhinged’ by dogs’ barking
Rising Above:
Louisiana floodwaters no match for neighborly love
Ohio widower paints the town to make it a brighter place
Oregon town says goodbye to man who spent life helping neighbors
[Religiosity the best indicator of civic involvement]
How pickles are helping to raise money for 16-month-old from New Jersey with rare condition
Humanizing The Homeless: Steve McKenzie (@people_beautiful_people) • Instagram photos and videos