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| Foreword | |
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| A Preface the Author Hopes you will Read First | |
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| Acknowledgments and Thanksgivings | |
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| The Yearning for Community in Context | |
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| Five Stories of Longing and a Call | |
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| The Landscape of Disintegrating Community and Our Longing for It | |
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| Contours of Resistance to Community | |
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| Is Intentional Community your Calling? | |
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| Seeking the Community Where I Am Called | |
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| The Gospel Call to Discipleship in Community | |
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| Searching for Your Community: Visits, Internships, and Mentors | |
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| Novice Membership: Testing Your Call Against the Community's Questions and Your Own | |
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| Before you Move in Together | |
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| Dreaming the First Steps of a New Community | |
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| Transforming Conflict into Solidarity | |
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| Commitment, Membership, and Mission | |
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| Where Will You Put Down Roots? | |
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| Racial Reconciliation-Listening, Submitting, and Collaborating | |
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| Gender in Community-Conflict and Synergy | |
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| The First Year of Community | |
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| Decision-Making, Leadership, and Paths to Unity | |
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| Taking on Work Schedules and the Seduction of Careers | |
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| Making Connections Among Communities | |
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| Stop Going to Church and Become the Church | |
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| Growing Tasks for a Young Community | |
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| Convenant-Making in Story, Rule, and Liturgy of Commitment | |
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| On Why Your Community Might Need an Onion | |
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| Creation Care, Food Justice, and a Common Table | |
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| The Economy of God and the Community of Goods | |
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| A Spiritual Life for (and in Spite of) Community | |
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| When People Leave | |
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| A Mature Community Becomes Soil for God's New Seeds | |
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| Healing the Hurts That Prevent Community | |
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| Developing Common Work and Ministries | |
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| Sustaining Prophetic Vacations and Families in Community | |
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| Becoming Accountable-Visitations and Community Associations | |
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| Birthing and Nurturing New Communities from a Home Base | |
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| Exceptionally Gifted Persons and the Challenge of Submission | |
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| Conclusion: Embracing Renewal | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Reading | |