Intentional Communities Newsletter: March 3, 2012

Spirituality - Communities Magazine Spring Issue

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Communities ' spring issue focuses on Spirituality. Articles reflect a wide range of worldviews and practices, from traditional to eclectic, from religious to non-religious, from other-worldly to earth-based. Along with stories about how spirituality has played out in the lives of individuals and groups, authors discuss how to incorporate spirituality into any group, and how to help the experience of community enhance rather than impede our individual spiritual journeys. Whether you're religious, "spiritual but not religious," agnostic, atheist, or "none of the above," this issue has something for you.  

Articles Featured Online. The following articles from our new issue have been posted at communities.ic.org

Sharing The Path: Simple and Inclusive Practices for Integrating Spirituality into Groups by Kai Siedenburg 

Even “non-spiritual” groups can benefit through a multitude of simple practices that deepen participants’ connections with themselves, one another, and the sacred.

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Spirit In The Woods by Dana Snyder-Grant

At New View Cohousing, practicing consensus, navigating illness, and simply sharing lives are continuing spiritual exercises.

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Creative Spirituality In American Communities Of The Past by Tim Miller

If you haven’t heard of hollow earth theory, zig-zag-and-swirl, B-FICs, or bathing bans, you’ve missed out on some of the more distinctive contributions of communal spirituality.

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Also in This Issue

• Publisher’s Note: Giving Up the Gjetost, Seeing I, Eye to Eye by Laird Schaub
• Creating Community Ritual by Starhawk
• On the Value of Being There--Why Spiritual Communities Matter Now More than Ever by Margaret Critchlow
• The Spiritual Path by Douglas Stevenson
• Monasticism, Community, and "The Great Work" by Nancy Roth
• Gnostic History Lesson by Craig Chalquist
• Creating Spiritual Community at the Hermitage by Christian and Johannes Zinzendorf
• Common Ground in an Uncertain World by Chris Roth
• Finding Fulfillment at Ananda by Larry Rider
• Spiritual Warriors: Dharma and discipline cross paths at India's Mahabodhi residential school by Kiva Bottero and Are Saltveit
• From 78 to 73 in Community by Don Gobbett
• Inviting God to Dance by Rebecca Dale
• Circles of Community: Paganism and the Quest for Connection by Elizabeth Barrette
• Spirituality and Ecovillage Education by Daniel Greenberg
• Spirituality and Community Living by Clistine Morningstar
• Ties that Bind by Understanding Israel, M.A. Ed.
• Not a New Religion: Spirituality in Intentional Community by Miles Sherts
• It Takes a Village to Raise a Consciousness! by Kelly Bryson, MFT
• The Path of Community by Barbara StŸtzel
• Reviews―We the People by Diana Leafe Christian, The Economics of Happiness by Chris Roth
• Creating Cooperative Culture--The Church of Fermentation by Kim Scheidt

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Since 1972, Communities has been the primary resource for information, issues, and ideas about intentional communities in North America - from urban co-ops to cohousing groups to ecovillages to rural communes. Communities now also focuses on creating and enhancing community in the workplace, in nonprofit or activist organizations, and in neighborhoods, with enhanced coverage of international communities as well. We explore the joys and challenges of cooperation in its many dimensions.

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