February 2009

What the Australopithecus Shows Us

by Sarah Lynne 26 February 2009

Ever since I was first introduced to him in my human evolution class, I’ve been a huge fan of Steven Jay Gould’s essays on natural history. One that I read recently (Posture Maketh the Man) discusses the way social prejudices influenced early thought about human evolution. As I read the essay, it dawned [...]

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Fasting with Jesus, Struggling with the Devil

by Mark Van Steenwyk 24 February 2009

Tomorrow, Ash Wednesday, is the first day of Lent. Traditionally, Lent is the 40 days of fasting leading up to Easter. I’ve been missing the point of Lent my entire life. Since I didn’t really come into the Christian faith until I was a teenager (and since my earliest Christian experiences were among Charismatics) I [...]

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A Less Gracious Radicalism? A Response to Mark Van Steenwyk

by Dan Oudshoorn 22 February 2009

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published here. We’ve decided to close the comments on this article so that you can go to the author’s original post and comment there.
Mark Van Steenwyk, one of the editors of Jesus Manifesto, recently published an article there entitled “A More Gracious Radicalism“. In it, he repeats a few [...]

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The Common Root 2009: Jin Kim

by Mark Van Steenwyk 19 February 2009

How do we boldly and explicitly confess our racist past so that our memories can be healed? How do we penitently confess that we are still complicit in the structures of injustice that fund our commonwealth? What does it mean for us to walk humbly with our God and with one another in [...]

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The Common Root 2009: Carol Rose

by Mark Van Steenwyk 19 February 2009

Carol Rose, Co-Director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, speaks on Jesus’ call for Christians to be peacemakers whose action draws life from the roots of faith, branches out daring to grow, resistance to the toxicity of consumerism and colonialism, bearing the fruit of peace.

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The Common Root 2009: Greg Boyd

by Mark Van Steenwyk 19 February 2009

In this video, Greg Boyd shares how he stumbled into emerging kingdom movements and came to appreciate what the Anabaptist tradition has to say to the world today.

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The Common Root 2009: Tom and Christine Sine

by Mark Van Steenwyk 17 February 2009

Join Tom & Christine as they encourage us to consider joining the new conspirators by taking our turbulent times, our imperial mall, God’s new order and our own imagination much more seriously. In this session, they invite us to imagine new ways in community to be a difference and make a [...]

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Driven by Devils

by Mark Van Steenwyk 17 February 2009

“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.” – The True Believer, Eric Hoffer, p 86
Movements are all-too-often fueled by anger rather than hope, by hate rather than love, by fear rather than faith. In my last article, I talked about the way Christian radicalism [...]

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Something Like Hypocricy: Emergent Churches, Ordinary Radicals, and the Urge of Ecumenism

by Brandon Rhodes 13 February 2009

“I was saved out of the Roman Catholic religion when I was in my late twenties,” my friend Mike told me over an early morning coffee. “I grew up in that, being Irish, but now I see how awful and deceived it is. Now I’m a Christian.”
Mike went on like this for a while, nailing a similar litany [...]

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