http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/07/23/the_last_ones_standing/?page=full
Things I didn’t know: there is still Shaker community, though there are only four of them left. Their website explains why they share all their goods: “Those who give up all material things for the sake of the Gospel learn by that same Gospel that they may learn to live without assurance of the morrow in joyous confidence that they will lack nothing. The spirit of Christian poverty is more than the absence of wealth. The New Testament never condemns wealth as such, only when a person’s possessions come between him and God is there any real danger.”