A Discussion of the Bruderhof

ohey it's a @NorannV shoutout by @roddreher https://t.co/7AgUfTk6Zj

— 𝔖𝔲𝔰𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔞𝔥 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 (@suzania) December 11, 2020

Related:

@FrontPorchRepub on my @Plough colleague Clare Stober's new book ANOTHER LIFE IS POSSIBLE:https://t.co/SIxUulg4xH

— Peter Mommsen (@PeterMommsen) December 10, 2020

Who Are Anabaptists to Ask?

Surely, they don't still hold on to the belief that they are in continuity with the early Church in doctrine or authority?

But how Christian were they https://t.co/XSkJyBOEeB

— The Bruderhof (@TheBruderhof) November 12, 2020

What Sort of Political Life?

The life of the church is not only a political alternative, but a political answer. https://t.co/qxiJCzEMxd via @thebruderhof

— Transformation Louisville (@TransformVille) October 16, 2020

When the church is committed to being God’s politic, then Christians won’t fit into any worldly system – Two-Party or otherwise. The church, by its very life, is political. When it models mutual participation, economic justice, the things that make for peace, healthy marriages, and taking care of each other from cradle to grave, it serves as a reminder that God’s politics is something other than the world’s.

Most likely for this author it is one that does not participate in war-making or protecting the community from malefactors. It is a vision of political life parasitical upon the state and those who make sacrifices for the state? In such an instance, the Church isn't a complete political community, but dependent upon the "state" for protection and defense. This is probably not so different from Hauerwas' vision of the Church but it disregards the duties Christians have to their non-Christian neighbors.

Yawn

I can’t wait for this issue to come out so I can share my piece on feminism, illiberalism, and the dignity of dependence with all y’all. https://t.co/qLBHDrRmM9

— Leah Libresco Sargeant (@LeahLibresco) October 29, 2020

Anabaptist Feminism

https://t.co/KyMxR92AtH

— The Bruderhof (@TheBruderhof) October 7, 2020

Hm. Anabaptists...

We've seen all this before: In 1534, a violent gang of radical Anabaptists seized control of Münster and announced they were building Heaven on earth. My look at some parallels to the current American scene, today in @EpochTimes:https://t.co/nTnbasXIDh

— Joseph Bottum (@JosephBottum) September 25, 2020

Did you catch @albertmohler's interview with Joseph Bottum on this topic?https://t.co/SruGyz6ocK

— ⋊ sternfels ⋉ (@cfbearden) September 25, 2020

Just earlier this week we got a civic nationalists who believes in American exceptionalism comparing the Woke to Apostolic Christians who purged classical civilization.

Another Life is Possible by Clare Stober

Plough

David Default interviews Clare Stober about her new book https://t.co/xrjobmXHYF

— The Bruderhof (@TheBruderhof) September 21, 2020

Solidarity

As a "principle" of Roman Catholic social teaching, solidarity by itself it is insufficient to elaborate a systematic moral theology. We should diligere all with caritas, but that doesn't entail that we should diligere all equally. An essay like this cannot be systematic, given the limits of length, nor should it have attempted to cursorily mention difficult moral problems as if solidarity (or caritas) could tell us what to do.

"Monastic life is not one lifestyle choice among others. It is a public statement about the truth of who God is and what human existence means. It says in living words that this world is not enough."

Sister Dominic Mary Heath, OP on solidarityhttps://t.co/hc3Tb4w8g4

— Leah Libresco Sargeant (@LeahLibresco) August 24, 2020

Solidarity Means Giving Yourself by Sister Dominic Mary Heath, OP
Can a cloistered nun help a hurting world?

Inside the Bruderhof

BBC One (available for a limited time only in the UK

Bruderhof page on the documentary

I expected the BBC documentary 'Inside the Bruderhof' to be a hatchet job. Instead I watched something that profoundly subverts many of liberal groupthink's unexamined assumptions. Me at @unherd: https://t.co/mYusstTzUD

— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) August 19, 2020

Unherd: Finally! A religious story that is not about escape

Social Gospel Christianity

Great piece: "A movement is springing up that places witness to Christ directly into the full context of life in a way that contemporary people, with their natural and newly awakened strong social conscience, look for and long for." https://t.co/v6jWoBtnM6

— Andrew Zimmerman (@Zimmerman1n) August 17, 2020

Hrm...

The Bruderhof have been a tremendous blessing for me and my family, whether at their house in Pittsburgh, at the writers' retreat 2 yrs ago in the Hudson Valley, or in their hospitality in NYC when I spoke about my Plough essay on my Catholic neighborhood: https://t.co/MYw5cwOGUJ

— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) August 14, 2020

Still Selling Being Moderate

Prof. Cornel West and I have recorded our message to our fellow citizens on what our wounded, disunited country needs now. We would be grafeful if you would give us a listen

Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/tMxVSwLxTB

Spotify: https://t.co/L063UxFGJH

Web: https://t.co/P65jSpuF0q

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 23, 2020

Edit.
Bruderhof posturing (or maybe it's their form of evangelization). Why aren't the other Anabaptist groups like this? Who funds the Bruderhof?

All of us must speak the truth — including painful truths that unsettle not only our foes but also our friends and, most especially, ourselves. https://t.co/oC0cMoPDD3

— The Bruderhof (@TheBruderhof) July 23, 2020

Ahmari Responds to Hauerwas

Anyway . . . If you find these arguments intriguing, I develop them at greater length in this longish essay for The Catholic Herald. https://t.co/jGT4vtzptn

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) July 10, 2020

Catholic Herald

Just Witnessing?

Or marketing and selling "community"?

Today, 100 years ago, the Bruderhof community movement was born.

What is it all about? Find out more at https://t.co/y9Y22pN4A8#AnotherLifeIsPossible #intentionalcommunity #bruderhof pic.twitter.com/O4R7TB8Mt6

— Another Life Is Possible (@100YearsBook) June 21, 2020

Another Mention of Bruderhof