September 2010

Making Room [radical hospitality, part two]

by Mark Van Steenwyk 29 September 2010

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles on radical hospitality. I encourage you to read the first part, Unpacking Hospitality, before continuing.
In my previous article, I oh-so-briefly shared the origins of Christian hospitality. I’m not going to delve further into the origins and history of hospitality (I’d heartily recommend Christine [...]

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Early Christian Ecclesiology and “The Property Question” [part 1]

by Andy Alexis-Baker 28 September 2010

At our 2009 Christianity and anarchism gathering, speaker Rev. Emmanuel McCarthy said:
There are no peace churches in the United States. Because when you have got more than you need, and other people do not have enough to live on, you only keep the excess by violence. You do not keep it by appeals to faith [...]

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Unpacking Hospitality [radical hospitality, part one]

by Mark Van Steenwyk 23 September 2010

Extending hospitality to strangers has been a source of great joy in my life, but it has also been a source of struggle. I’ve been conditioned to fear the stranger–most of us have. We’ve been bombarded with worse-case-scenarios in news reports and in film. And our society has nurtured within us an individualistic sense of [...]

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Iconocast Episode 13: Carol Rose

by the Iconocast Collective 21 September 2010

In this episode, co-hosts Joanna and Jarrod interview Carol Rose, Co-Director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Christian Peacemaker Teams is a living answer to the question, “what would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war?” Carol has served with CPT in Colombia, Iraq, Palestine, Arizona [...]

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New Site Launch

by Andy Alexis-Baker 20 September 2010

We are happy to announce that the Jesus Manifesto and Jesus Radicals websites have been combined. We are still working out some of the kinks, but all the content from both sites are now available.
We will be bringing you new content on a regular basis in the near future, including posts from regular contributors throughout [...]

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At the end of “In the Beginning”: A Post-Conference Reflection

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 20 September 2010

Today marks a full week since “In the Beginning: Anarchism, Christianity and the Roots of Resistance” and I am still coming down from what was yet another stellar gathering. Over the course of two days, between 180 and 200 people from Portland, Ore. and other places across the US and Canada participated in sessions, workshops [...]

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