February 2011

Where Two Or Three Are Gathered

by Paul Munn 25 February 2011

‘When two or three are gathered together in my name.’ Not just one. But not a hundred either. Two or three. –Simone Weil
Among community-minded Christians, one of the most cherished and repeated sayings of Jesus is his promise, “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” [...]

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Scared of Scarcity

by Jocelyn Perry 23 February 2011

With the recent uprising in Egypt and the current protests in Wisconsin, the playbook for “struggle” is being tested. The paradigm of institutionalized oppression is being challenged with direct-action based on peaceful resistance. We as people of faith also must continue challenging the structures that keep us from growing into the “Body of [...]

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Taking Revenge: Exploring an Alternative Eschatology of Mercy

by Broderick Greer 22 February 2011

Sometimes, I’m more concerned with justice and revenge than God is.
In the past three years, I have been in multiple situations with people where revenge was my first instinct. At times, it feels like my yearning for justice is unquenchable, uncontrollable even. I want the people who have caused suffering in my life to endure [...]

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Roots of a New Society: Peter Maurin and the Agronomic University

by Eric Anglada 21 February 2011

Growing Roots
“The time for the agronomic university,” Catholic Worker theologian Michael Baxter declared, “has finally arrived.” We were a group of twenty adults, mostly Catholic Workers, gathered at New Hope Catholic Worker Farm in Iowa for a week of learning through manual labor, prayer, lecture, and discussion on our 28-acre parcel of land that is [...]

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Iconocast Episode 24: Murphy Davis

by the Iconocast Collective 18 February 2011

This is the Iconocast, episode 24: “Murphy and Ed on the Road, part 1.”
This is the first of a two part interivew with Murphy Davis and Ed Loring. In part one, Joanna and Mark interview Murphy Davis. Murphy Davis, with her husband, Ed Loring, have protested the death penalty, worked for housing the homeless, spoken [...]

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Cowards

by Brian Johnson 17 February 2011

The author encourages readers to have their Bible handy, and to perhaps review the character of Nicodemus in the Gospel of John before reading further. Pertinent passages are: John 3:1-21; 7:40-53; 19:38-42.
I follow with great interest the movements of the radical, anarchist, Christian, liberationist, and/or activist movers and shakers. I mean the Plowshares movement, Christian [...]

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Our Common Ground (Part 1): Nonhuman animal exploitation and Black enslavement

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 15 February 2011

A complex web of social, political, and economic factors sustained slavery and made possible the life of a slave as it was known . . . there are distinct social, political and economic factors which create and support the subjugation of animals . . . But, as divergent as the cruelties and the supporting system [...]

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Anarchism as Spiritual Practice

by Ric Hudgens 13 February 2011

“Wake up to reality!”
(1 Corinthians 13:11, Phillips translation).
The fledgling democracy in Egypt may struggle to find its legs; nevertheless it is impossible for most of us to resist the joy and excitement of these events. It awakens us to how easily we succumb to the weight of “reality” where “a little sleep, a [...]

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Gregory of Nyssa and the Absurdity of Political Justice

by Johannes Steenbuch 9 February 2011

Gregory of Nyssa (c 335 – after 394) was a bishop in the Roman region of Cappadocia (in what is now Turkey), and, along with his brother Basil and his friend Gregory Nazianzus, he is considered one of the so-called “Cappadocian Fathers”. Gregory of Nyssa is perhaps most famous for his defence of the doctrine of [...]

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The Myth of Scarcity

by Joseph Barker 8 February 2011

Last week I had the opportunity to spend five days at the Church for All People (C4AP) in Columbus, Ohio as a part of my seminary training. At first I was a little concerned that the focus was going to be saving the souls of the poor and homeless, or worse, “how to make [...]

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