Kevin Basil

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The Orthodox guerilla, Sampson, returns with a story about community:

I think many of us are looking for precisely this. We are not looking for another volunteer opportunity. We are looking for a tribe, a community, a group of people with whom we hold values and a vision of the world in common, with whom we can share, not just work, but cooking and laughter, washing dishes, working in the garden together. We are seeking a sense of belonging, a connectedness that overcomes the isolation that has been imposed upon us by race, by class, by gender, and by a thousand others meaningless distinctions, the ways by which we size up others and say, “like me” or “not like me.”

I think there are many, many people out there who are still looking for their tribe. Some of you have been looking for years.

(Read the rest: Guerilla Orthodoxy: Dinner at the Catholic Worker House.)

Those of you who have frequented this blog before may recognize the Catholic Worker movement as a form of intentional community, which I believe to be a tool that the Church can use profitably in combating the alienation that follows upon Western society’s obsession with individualism.

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