Sharing the Faith, Splitting the Rent

An article in the Sunday New York Times on intentional-communities of faith in NYC.  This is my intent.

Sharing the Faith, Splitting the Rent

Justin Hilton, 21, arrived at the brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant on
July 1. Mr. Hilton works at a video store in Park Slope, and moved from
Crown Heights, where he shared an apartment with a friend. He now pays
$500 a month to be a part of Radical Living.

A child of missionaries to West Africa, he grew up in communal
situations, and he was seeking similar surroundings when he discovered
Radical Living.

“Living here in this community is not just like I have people my age or
into the same things as me,” he says. “It stretches you and makes you
hopefully more selfless, living for something more than just your own
comfort.”

He said that living where religion is as much a part of daily roommate
life as making sure there’s milk in the fridge, means the principles of
his faith are always in practice. “Church, when it’s once a week, you
can turn it off,” Mr. Hilton said.