Communities #207: Breaking the Spell

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...

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...

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 #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...