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Community Resources

First of all, Tom was on the Steve Brown Etc. podcast on December 19, 2008. Listen here.

Books
Christine Sine is researching a possible book on community. Here is her reading list. If you have any suggestions for her, email her at christine@msainfo.org

• Stanley Grenz, Created For Community: Connecting Christian Belief With Christian Living (Baker Academic, 1998).
• Joseph Myers, Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect (Baker Books, 2007).
• Joseph Myers, The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups (Zondervan, 2003).
• Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging (Berrett-Koehler, 2009).
• Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of Community (Da Capo Press, 1999).
• Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein, Better Together: Restoring the American Community (Simon & Schuster, 2004).
• Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leadership Organizations (Portfolio, 2008).
• Ian Mobsby, The Becoming of G-d (Lulu, 2008).
• Rodney Clapp, ed., The Consuming Passion: Christianity and the Consumer Culture (IVPress, 1998).
• Felix Rivera and John Erlich, Community Organizing in a Diverse Society, 3rd ed. (Allyn & Bacon, 1998).
• Stuart Murray, Church After Christendom (Paternoster, 2005).
• Brownson, Dietterich, Harvey, and West, StormFront: The Good News of God (Eerdmans, 2003).
• Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church (Brazos, 2007).
• Gerald L. Sittser, Water From a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries (IVPress, 2007).

• Christine Pohl, Making Room: Discovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition (Eerdmans, 1999).

And here are a few more you may be interested in:

• Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers: Prayer For Ordinary Radicals (IVP, 2008).
• Stanley Grenz, Theology For the Community of God (Eerdmans, 2000).

• Paul R. Dekar, Community of the Transfiguration: The Journey of a New Monastic Community, New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship, ed. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, 3 (Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, 2008).

Websites

• Cohousing US, www.cohousing.org
• Cornerstone Community AUS, www.cornerstone.edu.au
• New Monasticism, www.newmonasticism.org
• Matt Freer’s blog (residential member of House244 in Oxford, UK), mattfreer.wordpress.com
• Bartimaeus Cohousing Community, www.bartcommunity.org

• Temescal Cohousing Community, www.cohousing.org/directory

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