The Twelve Tribes

Movement·Founded 1972 CE·The community reports something over 2,000 members across communities in around a dozen countries. There is no external count.

Judaism → Christianity → The Twelve Tribes

The Twelve TribesArchiveJudge Mahady's 1984 opinion, published by the community itselfThe recordWorld Religions and Spirituality Project — Twelve Tribes

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Core tenet of The Twelve Tribes

Everything in one purse.

No member owns anything. Wages from the community businesses go into a common fund and everything comes back out of it, which the community reads as the plain sense of Acts 2 rather than as an ideal.

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Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

The common purse is not a policy but the membership test. Nobody owns anything; income from the Yellow Deli cafes, the farms, the soap and leather workshops goes into a common fund and everything comes back out of it. Members receive no wages and pay no rent. The community reads this straight out of Acts 2 and regards partial versions as evasions. It is also the point at which most external criticism lands: a member of many years who leaves has no savings, no employment record and no social-security contributions, and former members and labour regulators in several countries have raised exactly that.

The same ground, other faiths

claims that share this one's ideas
Ordaining women, and where the line is drawn. Judaism · community Go deeper →
The masjid. Islam · community Go deeper →
Caste has no standing here. Sikhism · precept Go deeper →
Assemblies, not clergy. The Bahá'í Faith · community Go deeper →
No creed — a covenant. Unitarian Universalism Go deeper →
A presbytery writes its own will and dies. The Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) · story Read it in full →

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