Creating Community in a Time of Crisis. My late brother, Anthony, suffered lifelong disabilities of mind, body and emotion, spending most of his adult life in land-based working communities for people with learning difficulties. This narrative of his life in its minute particulars is punctuated by social and theological reflections on the times through which we have both lived and the lessons we can learn from his communities that are so urgently needed in todays deeply endangered world.The fundamental unity of our shared human and planetary community, flowing from and finding its fulfilment in God who is a community of