March 2011

Iconocast Episode 27: Carolyn Griffeth and Teka Childress

by the Iconocast Collective 31 March 2011

In this episode, Mark talks with Teka Childress and Carolyn Griffeth.
Teka has been a member of the Karen House Catholic Worker community for over thirty years. Carolyn Griffeth (with her husband Tery) are the founders of Carl Kabat House Catholic Worker community. Both houses are part of the vibrant catholic worker expression in St. Louis, creating [...]

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Arming Christian Campuses?

by David C. Cramer 30 March 2011

I teach at a small Christian liberal arts college in Northern Indiana, which—much to my consternation—recently gave approval for the chief campus safety officer to carry a gun while on duty. The other day after one of my classes, a student of mine asked me what I thought of letting campus safety officers carrying guns. [...]

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Nonviolently Resisting God

by Paul Munn 28 March 2011

If when you do right and suffer for it you take it patiently, you have God’s approval. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. He committed no sin; no deceit was found on his lips. When he was [...]

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Conference Update–Beyond a Brave New World: Anarchism and Christianity for the Coming Age

by Administrator 25 March 2011

The ninth annual Jesus Radicals conference is scheduled for July 29-30 at Faith Mennonite Church in Minneapolis, Minn. The event will be co-hosted by the Missio Dei community.
This year’s theme is loosely inspired by themes, from Aldous Huxley’s work, Brave New World and will be organized into three core areas, including:

Understanding the emerging technologies [...]

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Holistic Healing, Gospel Style: Compassion, Justice, and Liberation

by William O'Brien 24 March 2011

In the endlessly raging debates about the “historical Jesus,” one of the clearest testimonies of the Gospel is that Jesus healed people. All the divergent theologies and Christologies wrapped around the person of Jesus of Nazareth must grapple with this core fact: The stories of Jesus portray him as a healer.
Throughout church history, the gospel [...]

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Book Review: “Come Out, My People!” God’s Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond by Wes Howard-Brook

by Frank Cordaro 23 March 2011

I have wanted to read this book for many years. It just was not written yet. Now that it is, we Catholic Workers and faith-based-nonviolent-resistance-to-the-USA-Empire type folks owe Wes Howard-Brook a debt of gratitude. Not since reading Ched Myers’s ground-breaking Binding the Strong Man has a book so influenced my reading of the scriptures. What [...]

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After the Earthquake

by Ric Hudgens 21 March 2011

The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 is believed to have been about a 9.0 on the Richter scale and resulted in the deaths of 60,000-100,000 people. The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami devastated the city of Lisbon and effectively ended Portugal’s economic influence in Europe.
The consequences of the earthquake were not only material and economic but [...]

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Iconocast Episode 26: Eda Uca-Dorn

by the Iconocast Collective 18 March 2011

In this episode, Mark and Joanna interview Eda Uca-Dorn. Eda is director of Hosanna! People’s Seminary. A first generation American of Turkish and Arab descent, she has participated in intentional communities and movements of the Catholic Left/anti-war variety. Eda is currently editing an anthology of Catholic Worker writing for Rose Hill Books. Her great theological passions [...]

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Resistance is Christ-Like

by Rob Ham 15 March 2011

Satan tempted Christ three times in the wilderness. First he challenged Jesus to turn stones to bread in order to satisfy his hunger. Second he took Christ to the top of a temple tower and challenged him to leap so that angles would break his fall. Third he took Jesus to a mountain top where [...]

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Radical Sustainability, Beyond Green Capitalism: Anarcho/a-Primitivism, Feminism and Christianity in Conversation for an Endangered World in ABQ, NM

by Administrator 11 March 2011

In April 2011, Members of the Trinity House Catholic Worker and the “In the Land of the Living Collective” in Jackson, Michigan are organizing a symposium with Ched Myers, John Zerzan and Layla AbdelRahi to be held at the University of New Mexico. This symposium will continue an ongoing dialogue between people of the Judeo-Christian [...]

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