Communities #207 Summer 2025 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. Communities #207, Summer 2025, Breaking the Spell, explores ways that communitarians are challenging and finding alternatives to thought patterns, lifeways, and habits of relating that keep us...
Communities #206 Spring 2025 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #206, Ecovillage Visions, explore what a viable future might look like, both for intentional communities and for the wider world. We take an in-depth look at a...
Communities #205 Winter 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #205 explore community Across the Generations. A founder reflects on her former group’s legacy among its grown children; grandparents celebrate helping raise their...
Communities #204 Fall 2024 Note: You can order a copy of this issue here. The stories in Communities #204 explore the theme of Politics from many different angles. We learn about a communitarian’s US Senate run, an international community threatened by an...
By Tracy Matfin (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Last week I was having garden fresh mint tea with a visitor to our community. She was talking about her daughter, who was home with her dad, and asked me how my family group dealt with conflict with our...
By Starhawk (excerpted from Communities #203, Summer 2024) Embracing Conflict When any group of human beings come together around a project or goal, sooner or later there will be conflict. We have different ideas, needs, priorities, and values, and they may clash....