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Interesting that you note Agape Community in Liberty TN. It is one that I have observed very closely (Fr Gregory and I are old friends etc). Although he hopes to have an intentional community, it has never (at least not in the 25+ years of our accquaintance) happened. Occasionally he would have people come who wanted to stay, but there were always personal conflicts which over-rode the desire for community. Looks good on paper, but not in reality. And as an additional note, the little tag on the Orthodox jursidictional affiliation (synod of Bp. Agafangel of Odessa) indicates that they are affiliated not with what you might assume to be ROCOR, but rather a splinter group that went into schism from ROCOR at the time of the reconciliation with the Moscow Patriarchate. Although we are friends, I would have a hard time saying that Agape community is really a community (since only Fr G an his wife remain on the property, as far as I know) and in fact was never what I would consider an "intentional community".

Fr David Moser