The Land Will Have its Rest
The Land Will Have its Rest
The Land Will Have its Rest
Posted 4 days ago

I don’t believe in “creation care”. Creation care is too little too late. We are past the time when any of the changes that creation care advocates recommend will make any significant difference in our…

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The Land Will Have its Rest
The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis
The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis
The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis
Posted 17 days ago

Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series. For part one, go here.

There are many models for uprooting oppression in our communities. To offer one of many, the Hosanna! People’s Seminary approach is…

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The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis
A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer
A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer
A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer
Posted 19 days ago

“The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.” - Gustav Landauer, 1907

For two centuries, anarchism has been a dynamic conversation centered around the nature of freedom and authority,…

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A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer
the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)
the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)
the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)
Posted 22 days ago

In this episode, Mark and Sarah interview Shannon T.L. Kearns.

Shannon writes as the anarchist reverend. He is a seminary graduate (M.Div 2009 from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York) on the ordination…

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the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)
Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4
Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4
Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4
Posted 25 days ago

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a series offering a primer on Christian Anarchism. Please read part one, part two, and part three before proceeding. 

In working through this series (where I've oh-so-briefly explored the complementarity of the…

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Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4
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The Land Will Have its Rest

by Ric Hudgens 30 January 2012
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I don’t believe in “creation care”. Creation care is too little too late. We are past the time when any of the changes that creation care advocates recommend will make any significant difference in our environmental situation. Recycling, changing light bulbs, riding bicycles, or starting a garden will not be sufficient to address the magnitude [...]

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The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis

by Eda Uca-Dorn 17 January 2012
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Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. For part one, go here.
There are many models for uprooting oppression in our communities. To offer one of many, the Hosanna! People’s Seminary approach is to discern particular areas of privilege and poverty within a community through a three part process: awareness of privilege and [...]

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A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer

by Eric Anglada 16 January 2012
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“The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.” – Gustav Landauer, 1907
For two centuries, anarchism has been a dynamic conversation centered around the nature of freedom and authority, the roots of domination, practices of decentralization and organization from below, the relationship between means and ends, and visions of [...]

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the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)

by the Iconocast Collective 12 January 2012
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Podcast: Embed
In this episode, Mark and Sarah interview Shannon T.L. Kearns.
Shannon writes as the anarchist reverend. He is a seminary graduate (M.Div 2009 from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York) on the ordination path who also happens to be a transsexual man. Many of his theological musings are on the intersection of [...]

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Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4

by Mark Van Steenwyk 10 January 2012
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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a series offering a primer on Christian Anarchism. Please read part one, part two, and part three before proceeding. 
In working through this series (where I’ve oh-so-briefly explored the complementarity of the way of Jesus and anarchism and the way the anarchic impulse has been expressed in Christian scriptures and history), I’ve [...]

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Looking Backwards: The Green Revolution and Green Anarchism

by Eric Anglada 9 January 2012
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I. Shades of Green
In Dorothy Day’s reminiscences of her Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin, she recalled his attraction to the grass that stubbornly grew up between the cobblestones of New York City, and how he knew that the concrete of the metropolis could not entirely eliminate the teeming green world underneath it. Peter, a village [...]

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The Other Story: De-bunking the Welfare Lie

by Autumn Brown 6 January 2012
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A few weeks ago, I was listening to a radio program about the current Republican primary candidates. At one point a woman called in complaining that the candidates are not talking enough about welfare reform. She went on to say that she is a single mom working 60 hours a week to pay for a [...]

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The Wars Come Home

by Wes Howard-Brook 3 January 2012
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When I was 14 years old in 1968, I doorbelled for Sen. Eugene McCarthy as he ran a strong anti-war campaign for president. I lamented when Bobby Kennedy stole McCarthy’s thunder and took the California primary, only to be gunned down by one of several “lone gunmen” during that period. I joined my high school [...]

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CALL: Must I Be Anarchist?

by Amaryah Armstrong 26 December 2011
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(Or, Why Are All the Anarchists Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?)
Editor’s Note: This piece is part one of a series of call and response between Amaryah Armstrong and Nekeisha Alexis-Baker as they consider what possibilities Christian anarchy can provide for marginalized peoples. The conversation grows out of friendship and mutual respect for each other, and [...]

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RESPONSE: It depends on how we define “anarchist”

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 26 December 2011
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(Or, I hope it is because we are all recovering hierarchists trying to find another way forward)
Editor’s Note: This piece is part two of a series of call and response between Amaryah Armstrong and Nekeisha Alexis-Baker as they consider what possibilities Christian anarchy can provide for marginalized peoples. The conversation grows out of friendship and [...]

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