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The Bruderhof is an international Christian communal movement of families and singles that originated in Germany in 1920. Driven to England by Nazi persecution in 1937, Bruderhof members emigrated to Paraguay in 1940 with the help of the Mennonite Church. In 1954 the movement opened its first Bruderhof community in the United States in upstate New York. Today, more than two dozen other communities and communal houses are located in New York and Pennsylvania as well as in Australia, England, Germany and Paraguay. Inspired by New Testament descriptions of the first church, and by the communal movements of the Radical Reformation, members of the Bruderhof seek to live out their faith by sharing everything in common, and caring for each other and their neighbors. Plough is the publishing house of the Bruderhof and has been in existence for over eighty years.
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Ebooks on Our History
Why We Live in Community
In this time-honored manifesto, Arnold adds his voice to the vital discussion of what real intentional community is all about: love, joy, unity, and the great "adventure of faith" shared with others along the way. He does not describe (or prescribe) community here, but provides a vision to guide our search.
A Joyful Pilgrimage
If life was a battle for Emmy Arnold, it was also a celebration. This is the secret to her joy: she lived an undivided life, a life where the practical and the spiritual, the personal and the political, were one. Her memoir is a challenge to faith and commitment against all odds, and a testimony to the leading of a uniting Spirit stronger than everything that keeps people apart.
Against the Wind
A journalist's biography of Eberhard Arnold, the founder of the Bruderhof, a man who, in his search for Christ, ended up turning the Christianity of his day on its head. Markus Baum looks at the forces that shaped Arnold's life, recreates the colorful era in which he lived, and shows Arnold's connection with other thinkers of his day.
An Embassy Besieged: The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany
A small group under the leadership of Eberhard Arnold grapples with questions of giving a Christian witness while obeying those in authority (Romans 13) and loving their enemy (Matthew 5:44).
No Lasting Home: A Year in the Paraguayan Wilderness
As Hitler’s armies turn mainland Europe into a mass graveyard, a little group of 300 pacifist refugees – half of them babies and young children – looks for a new home. Where should the refugees try to resettle next? This is one year of their story.
O truth, O strength, O gleaming share,
O patient eyes that watch the goal,
O ploughman of the sinner’s soul.
O Jesus, drive the coulter deep
To plough my living man from sleep.
Excerpt from the Final Verses
By John Masefield