#148 - Bernard Hibbs - No Wealth, No Career & No Phone: Inside The Radical Christian Community Hiding In The English Countryside

Bernard Hibbs is a member of the Bruderhof; an intentional Christian community of three hundred people living in East Sussex without money, without mortgages, and without personal possessions. Everything is held in common and if someone needs something, they ask and they receive it. The Bruderhof have lived this way for over a hundred years. In this conversation we think out loud about: How three hundred people actually live without money The founding of the Bruderhof in nineteen-twenties Germany and its expulsion at gunpoint by the SS What it means to make lifetime vows of membership The consumer trap and whether we need everything the modern world tells us to want, and what we could gain if we turned away from it If Christ-centeredness is the only thing that can hold a community like this together Whether ordinary families can learn anything from the Bruderhof without joining one Related: Luke Dysinger — The Last Time Western Civilisation Collapsed One Institution Saved Everything: https://youtu.be/HC3PLGAQhIM The Base — They Were Trained By The Best In British Theatre: https://youtu.be/sNQ6ank7quI Lola Salem — You Can Win Every Election. If The Whole Of Culture Is Against You Nothing Will Change: https://youtu.be/6dWWMysaN3E Watch The Call of England: https://youtu.be/muBQWIP6ZQQ Register your interest for the Albion Institute: https://albioninstitute.org Thinking Class is a long-form interview podcast on the cultural, historical and civilisational forces shaping England, Britain, the Anglosphere and the wider West.  Hosted by John Gillam.  ▶ YouTube ✍ Substack 🎧 Spotify 🍎 Apple 🐦 X  New episodes every Thursday at 3pm.