What happens to community, once organized around a felt encounter with the transcendent, is that it gets institutionalized. Institutions serve many defensible purposes, especially the maintenance and transmission of particular values. Yet, as we know, institutions so often have a peculiar way of ending up violating the principles of their founding. Seemingly, two inherent laws of institutions invariably emerge: first, they preserve the institution at all costs, even at the risk of selectively compromising their founding vision,39 and second, they preserve the status of their priesthood,
