August 2008

The Beliefsale

by Administrator 26 August 2008

 
The laying down of my life
is beginning to look like a garage sale.
As the sun rises over suburban horizons
dew is gathering on boxes of
possessiveness and dogmatism
          pre-priced
          but readily negotiable.
A blanket on the pavement
has all my individualisms
spread out, with a sign that reads
“25 cents each.”
You see
I had previously been tempted to sell a few old [...]

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The Style of Subversion Part 3: A Loving Resistance

by Mark Van Steenwyk 25 August 2008
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Evangelism for the Ordinary Radical

by Brandon Rhodes 17 August 2008

"So, are you an anarchist?" my upstairs neighbor Jonah asked.  I had just told him about this website that dabbles in Christian Anarchy from time to time, and such an obscure topic had evidently snagged his curiosity.
"Well, no, not quite.  I figure if all that talk in the New Testament and our Christmas hymns about [...]

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The Style of Subversion Part 2: Resisting Pseudo Alterity

by Mark Van Steenwyk 12 August 2008

In part one of the Style of Subversion, I examined the rise of the “hipster” and the growing trend of easy radicalism. Rather than simply vilifying the current trend, my hope is that we can see the see it for what it is. We must resist the Powers (of consumerism, globalism, fashion, etc) even as [...]

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Going Public with My Privates (part 3 of 3)

by Geoff Holsclaw 11 August 2008

…on becoming post-(whatever I was).
After talking about my brief movement in evangelical fundamentalism rather than evangelical liberalism (part 1), and discussion how they really are not that different (part 2), what needs to be rethought now is that we must abandon the movement from private to public altogether, and this abandonment is what I finally [...]

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go as poor among the poor…

by Mark Van Steenwyk 7 August 2008

“The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor. The Church must trust the Gospel enough to come among the poor with nothing to offer the poor except the Gospel, except the power to discern and the courage to expose the Gospel as it is already mediated in the [...]

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Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds

by Michael Cline 6 August 2008

After expressing his apologies to the 50 million individuals in our world infected with HIV/AIDS, Tom Davis goes beyond scolding the Church for its lack of initiative (“Those of us who claim to follow Christ’s teaching should be ashamed…Entire nations are going up in flames while we watch them burn,” p. 13) and challenges those [...]

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mere anarchy

by Kimberly Roth 5 August 2008

Sometimes
foundations have to crumble
in order
to break new ground.
The center
that once held
is now
dangling from the fringe.
What is new
may not be true
but,
then again,
what was
was not
either.
Sometimes
questions have to surface
in order
for answers to emerge.
The certainty
that once soothed
is now
scratching to get out.
What is new
may not be sure
but,
then again,
what was
was not
either.
Sometimes
things fall apart
in order
to come together.
The cracks
that once tormented
are now
letting in [...]

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The Style of Subversion: An Introduction

by Mark Van Steenwyk 4 August 2008

It has been a really difficult week. As I sit down at my favorite urban coffeeship, sipping iced coffee, and begin to catch up on last-week’s work, I realize that what I am about to write could easily be hypocritical. What follows is the first in a series challenging the rise in pseudo radicalism. Challenging [...]

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St. Augustine and Heidegger

by Administrator 4 August 2008

St. Augustine once wrote that he was a mystery even to himself. He goes on to say, that we exist in a fluctuation of concealment and unconcealment. As humans we understand our selves or Dasein only in moments of clarity. This moment of clarity is for Augustine the idea of God. [...]

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