Tag: Deer Spring

• Sorry, No Catholics Allowed

  At age twenty-six in the summer of 1968, I visit the Bruderhof community in northern Connecticut, stepping through its stone wall and wrought-iron gate into a pastoral world that feels suspended in time.

  RMDell’Orfano

  February 25, 2026

  Autobio

  1968, Anabaptist tradition, bruderhof, Christian communal living, communal property, Connecticut, Deer Spring, intentional community, memoir, New England countryside, pastoral landscape, religious experiment, spiritual searching