I live in a Christian community. I have found Bonhoeffer’s Life Together very helpful but also very confronting. This next excerpt puts a finger on what I think the biggest challenge of living in community is: being thankful when it feels like the people you are living alongside are causing pain. Living in community is a really nice idea, until you realize it’s full of people who are incredibly weak, self interested and fallible. If you weren’t also all those things then you would have a very good reason to blame them for all the things that go wrong In a community. As it is the temptation is to blame…