An
intentional community refers to a group of people who choose to live together and share common goals, values, or beliefs. They intentionally come together to create a supportive and cooperative living environment, where they can engage in shared activities, decision-making processes, and sometimes even pool resources.
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A passion for sustainability and
intentional community led him to live for several years with others in a co-op housing community while working in a co-op bakery business.
While we were working
in intentional communities in the Pacific Northwest USA, there were two artists working in our micro «live - work space» apartment in Midtown Manhattan.
The alternative to the disappearance of Christian existence is the emergence of a new vision capable of
sustaining intentional communities whose vitality would enable them to revivify part of the remains of the institutional church.
«The only way the tiny house movement is going to succeed is if people get together and
build intentional communities of tiny houses, which will solve the land, loans and laws problem and eliminate the fear and social pressures ones.
«The sale of the coins will generate capital to create self - sustaining
intentional communities across the US and across 57 nations,» the release said.
Six months ago, as an experiment, she and her roommates thumbtacked $ 80 in cash on three different corkboards (at the Red Vic and another local
intentional community called The Embassy).
Groups
like Intentional Community Building Collective, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle in Baltimore and Malik Fraternity Inc., the first collegiate fraternity founded on the concept of African fraternalism, in Charlotte, N.C., are assembling discussion panels on the movie's themes.
Advocating for the end of the modern slave trade, she hopes to open a
small intentional community retreat for exploited youth in Canada.
Several folks in the comment section argued that one can not seriously follow Jesus in the context of suburbia, and that true Christians will sell their belongings, move to the inner - city, and live in
intentional community among the poor.
Certainly it's not to romanticize the poverty in the inner city or something, but a lot of people live in community not because they
choose intentional community but because that's how they've had to survive.
I thought that if I got up my courage to
try intentional community again, that I would be met with kindred spirits and casseroles and a welcoming committee.
Twin Oaks Community Foods is a cooperative business run by the Twin Oaks Community, an income -
sharing intentional community of 95 adults and 15 children living on 350 acres in rural central Virginia.
If we spent our professional development days going to a homeless shelter and preparing meals, or if we spent one staff meeting a month having an office party, would our accidental learning communities turn
into intentional communities?
The massive fully - interactive arts festival that is Burning Man attracts people from around the world to experience a
temporary intentional community in the heat of the
Her big «a-ha» sustainability moment came some years ago when she lived and worked as an architect in Auroville, a South
Indian intentional community striving for environmental, social and economic sustainability.
Great coworking spaces aren't just about «sharing desks» — just like other
intentional communities where people share resources, they need a common vision and more.
The Catholic challenge seems clear: if the way forward depends on
intentional communities of Christian formation rather like Benedictine monasteries, then what shall we hope for from the parishes located, as it were, outside the monastery walls?
Furthermore, the former announced on January 3 that it has «executed a financing commitment of $ 100,000,000 to launch [an] initial coin offering for The Self Sustaining Intentional Communities Coin (Symbol SJT),» adding that «The sale of the coins will generate the capital to create self - sustaining
intentional communities across the US and across 57 nations.»
The ICO was for the «Self Sustaining Intentional Communities Coin (Symbol SJT),» with an aim to «create self -
sustaining intentional communities across the US and across 57 nations».
The communal movement of the past ten years has contained much cultural arrogance in its assumption that the
small intentional community, withdrawn from the larger society, is the only worthy form of common life.
From Karen: Having lived
in intentional community for a few years, I understand the challenges of sustaining a community.
I also like the ideas of
intentional community — that's what I desire.
Yes,
intentional communities may hasten that day, as did the first Benedictines, but creation itself is on their side, pulling even nonbelievers and adherents of other faiths in the right direction over the long term.
TONY CAMPOLO: This new group of young people that you sometimes call «ordinary radicals» includes some who are living in
the intentional community called the Simple Way.
Why does the world need another church service, another church plant, another prayer meeting,
another intentional community of believers?
I had done something similar when, in 1963, as a student in Chicago I had visited Reba Place Fellowship,
an intentional community in suburban Evanston, and discovered among its members a great interest in Bonhoeffer's Discipleship, but an equally passionate aversion to his involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler.
Over time, and as we grew, and we realized we weren't just
an intentional community house anymore; we were building a village!
Nearly ten years ago, Christianity Today highlighted the emergence of «the new monastics,» referring to them as an «
intentional community» of «new friars.»
Stock and Logan kiss each other on the cheek when they part for a journey of a few days, suggesting that three decades in
intentional community has led to a deep friendship.
Eighteen years ago some evangelicals who wished to wed a personal gospel with the social gospel helped begin a church and
intentional community in the city's Mission District.
And, when I realised that God was restoring church to me, giving me back my joy in
intentional community, in Sunday mornings and Bible studies and tithe cheque numbers, in the gathering of the Body to worship and learn and support and eat and scatter back out to our world, even in the calling of my husband to pastor, I laughed at the irony and I laughed gently at myself and I laughed because I was happy.