Members of this household community \u201d\u201d think small commune \u201d\u201d shared most finances, cleaning duties, cooking, etc., etc. This kind of idealistic arrangement was actually not that unusual in the era in which charismatic renewal swept through many mainline Protestant bodies, and Catholicism as well. There were many wonderful households of this kind and a few with dark sides (See the amazing Julia Duin book \u201d\u201d \u201cDays of Fire and Glory: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Community\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d about one terrible fall in Houston).<\/p>\n
One member of the Denver community kept her Emmy Awards in the household\u2019s television room, where they served as bookends high up on some shelves. She wasn\u2019t very good at cooking (tacos were her norm) and she admitted that she struggled a bit with childcare. Her name, of course, was Ann B. Davis and over the years she became a friend, too.<\/p>\n
The woman millions thought of as \u201cAlice\u201d\u009d was far more than her character on The Brady Bunch, or her trailblazing \u201cSchultzy\u201d\u009d character on \u201cThe Bob Cummings Show.\u201d\u009d She was the kind of person that, after the conversion experience that turned her life upside down, would spend her days hidden in the back of that homeless center quietly doing laundry or sorting through donated clothes. You should have heard her cackle when she finally managed to make stray socks match.<\/p>\n