“The whole idea is to live the kingdom life here and now,” says Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. “It’s for God and the community.” More →

March 18, 2011

Shaker communities “required of you to give your all to God to and to strive to work at your salvation each and every day,” says one of the last living Shakers. More →

March 18, 2011

The current president of Friends of the Shakers says the communities believed they would “grow to a great number and then dwindle down to as few as the fingers on one hand, and then there would be a resurgence.”
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March 18, 2011