Editing Eberhard Arnold (section)

==Founding the Bruderhof Community==
{{See also|Nazi dissolution of the Bruderhof}}
At age 37, he abandoned middle-class life and the established church, believing it to be complicit in the atrocities of the war.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://missiodeijournal.com/issues/md-9-2/authors/md-9-2-moore|title=Charles E. Moore, Radical, Communal, Bearing Witness: The Church as God's Mission in Bruderhof Perspective and Practice|website=missiodeijournal.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-06}}</ref> In 1920, he moved with his wife and children to the village of [[Sinntal|Sannerz]] in central Germany, and founded the [[Bruderhof]] with seven adult members and five children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishcatholic.com/a-radical-experiment-in-christian-living/|title=A radical experiment in Christian living|last=Quinn|first=David|date=2019-08-01|website=The Irish Catholic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>  The community experienced both trouble and growth, but by the mid-1920s the Sannerz farm was too small. In 1926, they bought a farm in the Fulda district and established the Rhön Bruderhof. When Arnold discovered that [[Hutterite]] communities still existed in North America, he contacted them and engaged in a long period of correspondence. In 1930 he traveled to America and stayed for about a year, visiting all the communities of Hutterian brethren in the United States and Canada. In December of that year, he was commissioned by them as a missionary to Europe.

In November 1933, the Bruderhof community was raided by the Gestapo, who searched for arms and anti-Nazi literature, and closed the community's school. The Bruderhof sent their school children to [[Switzerland]], and began to search for another place to establish their community. When the teacher sent by the government arrived in 1934, he found no children to teach. Property was acquired in the Alps in [[Liechtenstein]], and in March 1934, the ''Alm Bruderhof'' was founded.  Arnold spent the last two years of his life suffering from a leg injury that would lead to his death, while attempting to shepherd his flock to safety. Nevertheless, he remained active in travelling, lecturing and writing until his death in [[Darmstadt]] on 22 November 1935.

The Bruderhof is still operational as an intentional community in the United States, Paraguay, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, and Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/inside-the-bruderhof|title=BBC - Inside The Bruderhof - Media Centre|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-10-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://christlife.org/blog/learning-from-the-bruderhof-an-intentional-christian-community|title=Learning from the Bruderhof: An Intentional Christian Community|work=ChristLife|access-date=2017-07-19|language=en|archive-date=2022-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407004601/https://christlife.org/blog/learning-from-the-bruderhof-an-intentional-christian-community|url-status=dead}}</ref>  [[Plough Publishing House|Plough]], the publishing house he helped to found, is still operated by the Bruderhof, and carries many of his works.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.plough.com/en/about-us|title=About Us|website=Plough|language=en|access-date=2017-05-24}}</ref>