Editing Kerista (section)

===Criticism===
After an arranged visit to Kerista by three professors, the New Tribe was criticized for not being egalitarian, notably in Bro Jud's dominance of many commune matters.<ref name="Fellowship for Intentional Community: Tale of Two Communes">{{cite web|url=https://www.ic.org/wiki/tale-two-communes-scholar-errors/|title=Tale of Two Communes: A Scholar and His Errors|last=Cummings|first=Michael|website=Fellowship for Intentional Community|access-date=2018-06-14|archive-date=2018-06-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614094536/https://www.ic.org/wiki/tale-two-communes-scholar-errors/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The same professors questioned whether Kerista was feminist, and whether Kerista made only token contributions to philanthropy.<ref name="Fellowship for Intentional Community: Tale of Two Communes" /> A separate dissertation, written by an ex-Keristan, argued that Jud was not the primary problem, and instead criticized Kerista for institutionalizing '...a fetish for purity', describing 'the core psychological process in Kerista [to be] anxiety-producing and ultimately destructive because it centered around the toxic value of purity, which made the commune a bad place to live.'<ref name="Hamelin 2015">{{cite journal |last=Hamelin |first=Lawrence |title=And To No More Settle For Less Than Purity: Reflections on the Kerista Commune |website=Academia.edu |date=2015-08-03 |url=https://www.academia.edu/4897458 |publisher=University of Colorado at Denver|access-date=2018-06-27 |pages=57–73}}</ref>