June 2011

Conference Communique 2011: Schedule posted, new speakers and more

by Administrator 29 June 2011

Schedule posted
The gathering schedule for Brave New World: Anarchism and Christianity for the Coming Age is now online. We are securing the last of the sessions and workshops but you’ll find information on the following sessions.

Anarchism and Christianity Primer
Rise of the Technological Panopticon
Big Brother IS Watching
Hope for the 21st Century: Defending the sacredness of life, [...]

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What WOULD Jesus Do?

by John D. Rich, Jr. 29 June 2011

The purpose of this article is to discuss the real life Jesus as I glean him from the Gospels. The continued use of the “What Would Jesus Do?” (WWJD) platform fails to present a picture of a man who would trouble the state enough to kill. In the place of this person who was murdered [...]

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Gandhi: Master of Suspicion

by Ric Hudgens 28 June 2011

A new biography of Gandhi has sparked another cycle of reflection upon the man himself and his legacy.1 The world’s recurring fascination with Gandhi is almost as fascinating as Gandhi himself. Much of that fascination is a reflection of our inability to stereotype or pigeon hole Gandhi into any of our convenient political or [...]

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God’s Goodness and Animal Suffering [part 1]

by Andy Alexis-Baker 27 June 2011

Even a cursory read of Darwin’s Origins of Species cannot help but impress upon a reader the incredible cost of evolution. For a species to emerge, millions upon millions of evolving animals must have been killed off. These creatures emerged and died in the crucible of this suffering and evolving world. As one biologist, David [...]

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Iconocast Episode 32: Seth Donovan

by the Iconocast Collective 23 June 2011

In this episode, Sarah and Joanna talk to thinker and activist Seth Donavan. Seth blogs at confessingqueer.com. Seth’s work in her community focuses on what it means to create new ways of being while honoring the wisdom of our history & stories.
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They Tell Me of a Place (Guantanamo Bay)

by Jacob Michael 22 June 2011

They tell me of
a place somewhere
near Florida where the
question of torture is
no longer a question
but an action
somewhere south
someone’s vendetta comes
real
more real than a
concrete sidewalk or a
vinyl-sided suburb and I follow a line due east from the panhandle, across the Atlantic &
the Sahara then stop
somewhere a couple of thousand years ago
there was a man being interrogated [...]

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On Property

by AJ Smith 21 June 2011

Many USAmerican Evangelical Christians take pride in the idea that the United States was founded on the ethics, principles, and philosophies of Jesus Christ. However palatable this idea may be, we simply do not live in a Christian nation. For how could a nation ever be considered “Christian”? Someone is only Christian inasmuch as they [...]

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The Art of Not Being Governed

by Ric Hudgens 20 June 2011

Once upon a time humanity created the state and pulled themselves up out of the primitive and backward mountains, jungles, and swamps; away from nomadic life, slash and burn agriculture, and gatherer-hunter economies. Cities and nations replaced bands, clans, and tribes. Everyone benefited. Wise and benevolent kings and legislators led in the creation of “civilization”; [...]

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Jesus Radicals Website Update: Help needed

by Andy Alexis-Baker 20 June 2011

If you have been visiting Jesus Radicals over the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed intermittent delays or downtime with the site. We have been working very hard with our Web site host to determine the cause of these interruptions and have determined that the cause is a dramatic traffic increase that has [...]

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R. R. Reno’s “Preferential Option for the Poor”

by Dan Oudshoorn 14 June 2011

Introduction
In Matthew 13.44-46, Jesus is recorded as describing the kingdom of heaven in this way:
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a [...]

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