Instead of keeping up with the Joneses, what about settling in with them, living life with them, sharing bread with them—along with their joys and pains? This is what peering through this window into the life of the Bruderhof makes me wonder. It is possible to have a different orientation towards our children, our homes, our material goods, our neighbors—to be driven less by meritocratic competition and more by “inconvenient hospitality” that prizes substance over appearance, sacrificial love over its feel-good counterfeit.

As our modern life grows seemingly more fragmented and alienated, these portraits offer an alternative. Many share similar stories of feeling isolated, a “desperate emptiness,” before they joined the Bruderhof community... Life together, by contrast, presents a kind of wholeness. This book speaks to those longing for wholeness, especially challenging the church to take up God’s call to live peaceably with all men.

This book belongs in every church library and on the coffee tables, or their equivalents, of anyone in the world thirsty for examples of wholesome, peaceful, and beneficial living.

This book is about the Bruderhof, a celebration of struggles and endurance over 100 years of a remarkable communal movement. All the stories are interesting; some are very moving indeed. This is a very human portrait of what life is like living in community... The photography by Danny Burrows is breath-taking, fun, and often poignant.

This full sized coffee-table style volume is a delight to browse through and an impressively informative, beautifully illustrated, inspired, and inspiring history that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, community, and academic library collections.

Celebrating a century of Christian communal living, this oversized volume is filled with photo-essays describing the lives and contributions of past and present residents of the Bruderhof. . . . Photographer Danny Burrows illustrates ten chapters with images of society participants organized by the goals of this movement . . . showing how they work for a purpose, seek peace, share their faith, practice charity, and work together in sickness and health. . . . A laudable centennial presentation for this community that also serves to introduce this group to the general public.

This beautifully produced book, sure to draw in the spiritually curious, is a centenary celebration of the Bruderhof, told via testimonials by members from communities around the world.... The accounts all share a sense of having come home, and of finding peace in not having to prove one's worth or achieve material success. Photographs are vivid and beautifully composed; some pop with vitality; others are respectful windows into another world. A timeline of Bruderhof history and a world map of their communities complete this lovely book.