In response to the growing need for resource material
to serve the small living room-sized groups of neighbors
who are coming together for study and worship, the
minister team of Frank and Barbara Potter have been
organizing a creative network of what they call
"Spiritual Journeyors." They publish a monthly news-
letter filled with practical tips for what might be done in
such groups. Their newsletter attracts a sizeable
correspondence from people involved in neighborhood
spiritual study groups who write to tell of their aims,
practices, problems and solutions. For example, their
January 1976 issue of "COM" contained articles from
several different people describing how keeping a
spiritual journal has helped them along the path. Other
issues have dealt with themes such as Commitment,
Sexuality, Psychic Healing, Death and Dying, Marriage:
Styles and Contracts, and Meditation; all oriented
toward the way these themes might be worked with in
the study group and with reports from other groups who
have worked with these themes.
      The tone of the newsletter is informal and personal.
The reader who is involved in a study group finds it easy
to identify with the letters and articles it contains.
Besides providing many useful ideas, the newsletter
assures the reader that many of the challenges found in
one's own group are encountered in other groups, and
that the search for spiritual community is a vigorous
human enterprise. Henry Reed

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