Sentences with phrase «in a commune in»

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After living on a commune in Oregon, he and his wife, Judy, moved to Burlington in 1970, joining so many other back - to - the - landers looking to flee their harried urban existences.

Jo Freeman spent much of the 1960s living with her activist peers on communes — including a stint as part of a women's liberation collective in which everyone had equal say and stature.

Everyone in the commune was responsible for collectively cooking dinner and lunch.

Everything: Live in a commune, create a magazine, buy a nightclub, breed budgerigars, build a recording studio, start a business, crash that business, build a train company, launch a space - tourism company, start a racing team, create a cosmetics line, travel around the world in a hot air balloon and live on a private island.

But this is the first time in a real way that the community — black people, or people of color — have communed around food via the Internet.»

This resonates deeply with me as someone who communes with nature on a daily basis in the boreal wilderness.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who once lived in a vegetarian commune, is wary of Wall Street.

As for me, I want to know and commune with a being that, in my belief system, created me and died for me.

Poets like Wordsworth see the human person as capable of communing with the whole of reality, or at least with aspects in a deeper, more profound way.

I just think I am communing God (that is what prayer and worship are) but in effect just thinking in my own head.

Or suppose we were to withdraw from the irony of being Christians in these late times and build our medieval communes in the woods.

Our forebears learned the practical effects of collectivist methods: No one in a commune feels a personal motive to stay up at night with a sick cow (someone else will do it, I'm too tired), and the hardest workers who observe the loafers and free riders will begin to reduce their own labors.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

And while we are at it if you really believed your new testament then you'd be a socialist who sold everything they had and lived in a commune and praised god every day while taking care of the weak.

Today, we accept, sometimes even admire, communes, divorcées, and spinsters — and make provision for them in our laws of taxation, property, and zoning as well as in our pastoral, diaconal, and pedagogical ministries.

You wouldn't be fixing cars or be a lawyer, detist or work in a grocery unless it was so you could provide food for yourself and everyone else you lived with in that commune.

It was common in the recent past for the establishment to look askance on the commune but approvingly on the community home, to look churlishly at the divorcée but charitably on the widow, to look suspiciously on the spinster but benevolently on the spurned.

so if we are bound by our ideology about god, we are not actually communing with god in the bondage of the ideology about god.

It calls the disciple to live, at least part of the time, as if he or she were already in the next world, a world where all share freely and constantly commune with God — in short, a life of love.

Furthermore, it asked that all members of the Church of England be allowed to commune in the Massachusetts churches.

How was life in the communes turning out for the children?

He had been a committed Christian for several years, and he introduced me to his friends who lived with him in a commune.

Obviously, I'm not saying if you stay in your room all day and commune with imaginary characters then you will achieve the virtue of empathy.

It's why I commune with Him, trying to get His perspective, but I'm still limited in my understanding.

Many turn to manual jobs or crafts and some in rural communes engage in farming.

And it is apparent in the recurrent themes of returning to the natural, to the soil, to simpler forms of life, and to the elemental experiences of common people, that manifest themselves in folk music, communes, handicrafting, and classes in organic gardening.

Only that last doctrine comes from the Methodist Church to which he actually belongs (though with which he does not now commune — the Episcopalians down the street have drawn him in with weekly celebration of the Eucharist).

Now I am able to see Him, believe in Him, have the Spirit dwelling within me to comfort me commune with me and enable me to follow Christ.

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I mean one herd of lesbian from San Fran starting a commune in Montata, and we could switch it to blue.

In communing with Christ and each other, so also were we communing with all the saints.

In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» togetheIn sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» togethein drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.

As I've grown older, I've seen many things in «Christendom», I've seen communes (come and go in failure).

This puts me in the mind of Satan's character here is a being that was so very close to God himself, that most assuredly communed with God often.

Many of the early Christians lived in what are essentially communes.

Thousands of practical forms and methods of accounting and controlling the rich, the rogues and the idlers should be devised and put to a practical test by the communes themselves, by small units in town and country.

To «see» in this sense is to commune with and to enjoy the world as it is.

The form in which the answers to these questions have come is not so much that of systematic treatises as of concretizations of alternative philosophical models: the open classroom, gay marriages, tire commune, house churches.

Despite an inadequate development of neighbourly relationship between the communes, Buber feels that the Jewish communes are of central significance in the struggle for a structurally new society in which individual groups will be given the greatest possible autonomy and yet will enjoy the greatest possible interrelationship with each other.

The most powerful effort in the direction of Full Co-operatives, in Buber's opinion, has been the Village Communes which have taken the form of an organic union of agriculture, industry, and the handicrafts and of communal production and consumption.

From the bottom end, it is the understanding, the receiving, the accepting, the willingness to commune with the Beautiful Beyond, the Absolute, the All - in - All.

The communes themselves, moreover, have worked together in close co-operation and at the same time have left complete freedom for the constant branching off of new forms and different types of social structure, the most famous of which are the kvuza and the kibbuz.

But to suppose that one has not really communed with God until his own personality is lost in the Infinite and he is oblivious to all else is to call for an experience which, whether desirable or not, is seldom attainable.

The most promising experiment in the Village Commune, according to Buber, has been that of the Jewish communes in Palestine.

The rapid influx of Jewish refugees into Palestine has resulted in many cases in the rise of a quasi-elite who have not been able to provide true leadership for the communes and have come into conflict with the genuine chaluzim.

A national study of commune members, for example, showed that many individuals in these settings held assumptions different from the official ideologies of their communes.11

Much the same patterns were evident in the study of commune members and the San Francisco study focusing on racial attitudes.

Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an American Lourdes: a pilgrimage site where the living come to commune with the dead and to reckon with war and their own mortality in the medium of the mirror that is the Wall.

The churches justify this practice by implying that one has to be able to think like an adult — i.e., conceptually — in order to commune.

Sometimes the idea of starting a commune somewhere in the Interior where I can spin yarn, homeschool, and make my own soap all while having my fingers stuffed in my ears sounds pretty good.