What is spiritual community? For starters, it’s a contradiction in terms, since our spirituality is perhaps the most interior aspect of ourselves that can’t ever be fully communicated, whereas community is an outward cultural experience that is by definition shared with others. When we imagine our ancestors living in tribal clans, there was no question of community: our kin were our life. We lived deeply connected to nature and everyone around us looked similar to us, spoke like us and worshipped the same way. Our spirituality and our community were inseparably intertwined.
