November 2009

The trouble with Thanksgiving

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 25 November 2009

Thanksgiving makes me nervous.
For years, I’ve gotten a sinking feeling in my stomach as the month of November draws to a close and this day looms. On the one hand, Thanksgiving is about joy and gratitude. It is a time when I travel to see family and friends, welcome a few days of rest and [...]

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Happy Angstgiving

by Mark Van Steenwyk 25 November 2009

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. In honor of the day, I’d like to republish an old article that is worthy of your consideration.

A couple years ago, I wrote a post about how we need to match gratitude with lament. That the two are necessary practices in a broken world. In that post, I called for “angst-giving,” [...]

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Notes on the coming insurrection

by Mark Van Steenwyk 24 November 2009

Ok, so yesterday I started making some challenging comments on Peter Rollins’ blog post announcing an upcoming Insurrection tour. I followed up with an article last night published here at Jesus Manifesto.
That’s when the shit storm kicked up. In the past 24 hours I’ve been called an asshole, told that I am jealous, small, petty, [...]

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I believe in the insurrection?

by Mark Van Steenwyk 23 November 2009

Today, I read the following from Peter Rollins’ blog:
I am currently planning my ‘Insurrection’ pub tour. The first leg of which will be taking place over Easter 2010.
Through a rich cocktail of musical lament, poetic provocation and incendiary theology each evening of the tour will seek to call a new army of agitators into being. [...]

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A Fourth Letter from A Common Sense Atheist

by Luke Muehlhauser 19 November 2009

In October 2009, I was invited by my friend Luke to an exchange of letters about the reasons for our belief. Here is an index to our letters:

Luke’s 1st letter
My 1st letter
Luke’s 2nd letter
My 2nd letter
Luke’s 3rd letter
My 3rd letter

Here’s Luke’s 4th Letter:

Mark,
In my third letter to you, I asked you to clarify (1) what [...]

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Hospitality and the Will to Embrace

by Richard Beck 16 November 2009

It could be argued that hospitality–the welcoming of strangers–is the quintessential Christian practice. Welcoming sinners to table fellowship was the central, distinctive and inflammatory aspect of Jesus’ ministry and teaching. Further, the gospel writers create an identity relationship between Jesus and strangers. Jesus is the stranger. Strangers are Jesus. This notion–God is the [...]

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Happy New Year in November?

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 13 November 2009

“The churches in North America today are pushed around by a number of calendars: agricultural seasons, school terms, Hallmark moments, patriotic memorials, sporting championships, and waves of entertainment and commerce. All these are pressed onto a calendar of twelve roughly lunar months, all pressing for the churches to correspond to their patterns. But for a [...]

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Does Mite Make Right?

by Leo Hartshorn 11 November 2009

As he taught he said, “Beware of the scribes … they devour widows houses … ” He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow came and put in two copper coins, which are worth a penny. Then he [...]

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23 CIA Agents Convicted in Italy

by Andy Alexis-Baker 7 November 2009

9 minute video produced by the ACLU in which numerous individuals who were abducted and held for years at Guantanamo tell their stories.

This week, 22 CIA agents and the CIA base chief in Milan were convicted in an Italian court of kidnapping an Islamic cleric. The agents abducted Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off the streets [...]

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International: Anti-civilized Swedes

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 5 November 2009

I was really interested to hear about an upcoming anti-civilization discussion that is taking place next week in Gothenburg. Although I am not sure how far along the anarcho-primitivism/anti-civ conversation is in Swedish circles, or how much Christians are a part of the discussion, it was interesting to see that even people in [...]

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