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I thought this was the most interesting part of this.
While we are still struggling with how do we do this, they are struggling also.
Wow!
We are not crazy!
Eleven years after the first six members of The Simple Way moved into the house on Potter Street, the last three are moving out. Shane Claiborne is the only founder who still resides there, and he and his two housemates, Walz and Jessica Shoffner, are moving out by the end of the year.
As The Simple Way project grew, and as its original members turned from twentysomethings to thirtysomethings, moving out to have children or work on their own, it got hard to be both a house full of people dedicated to one another and, at the same time, an organization.
"The balance between trying to accomplish something together and care for each other well is very hard," Walz explained recently.
She cited a quote that's been on her mind (she can't remember whose): "Eventually, ideals turn into paperwork."
It hasn't necessarily helped that Claiborne's book inspired some young Christians not only to rethink their faith, but to actually come to Kensington to join him, expecting perhaps to see the stories they read re-enacted, with them playing the parts.
To some extent, The Simple Way got a little bit too cool.
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