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1926, after six years of intense communal living Eberhard reflects on the dangers of getting used to the mechanics of community and losing the initial enthusiasm in the grinding details of everyday life.

Organic Community

Eberhard Arnold

Eberhard attended a board meeting of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation at the end of January 1921. These are excerpts from his report published in Das Neue Werk in 1921.

Politics and the Fire of Reconciliation

Eberhard Arnold

It was toward the end of World War I that Eberhard Arnold concluded that participation in war or violence of any kind was irreconcilable with a Christian life. But speaking and writing against militarism was not enough; his convictions led him to community – an opportunity to live the Sermon on the Mount, to live in love and brotherhood. “Reconciliation” was not an isolated compartment of his life. It was an integral part of his whole life’s witness.