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The Land Will Have its Rest: The Land Will Have its Rest
The Land Will Have its Rest
Posted 4 days ago
I don’t believe in “creation care”. Creation care is too little too late. We are past the time when any of the changes that creation care advocates recommend will make any significant difference in our…
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The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis: The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis
The Puckered-Lip Wooing of We, Part 2: Praxis
Posted 17 days ago
Editor's Note: This is the second of a two-part series. For part one, go here.
There are many models for uprooting oppression in our communities. To offer one of many, the Hosanna! People’s Seminary approach is…
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A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer: A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer
A Contemplative Anarchism: Re-Introducing Gustav Landauer
Posted 19 days ago
“The real transformation of society will come only in love, in work, and in stillness.” - Gustav Landauer, 1907
For two centuries, anarchism has been a dynamic conversation centered around the nature of freedom and authority,…
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the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41): the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)
the Iconocast: Shannon Kearns (episode 41)
Posted 22 days ago
In this episode, Mark and Sarah interview Shannon T.L. Kearns.
Shannon writes as the anarchist reverend. He is a seminary graduate (M.Div 2009 from Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York) on the ordination…
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Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4: Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4
Tensions: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 4
Posted 25 days ago
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a series offering a primer on Christian Anarchism. Please read part one, part two, and part three before proceeding.
In working through this series (where I've oh-so-briefly explored the complementarity of the…
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My Thoughts are Murder to the State

by Ric Hudgens 5 December 2011

On July 4, 1845 Thoreau moved to Walden Pond and remained there for the next two years. The year before he had returned to his family home in Concord, Massachusetts to work in the Thoreau pencil factory. He dreamed of buying or leasing a farm where he could support himself and pursue his writing. In [...]

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Animal Liberation: The Missing Piece

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 28 November 2011

Rather than individualized battles, the view of social anarchism encourages us to see struggles as interconnected, and to act appropriately by building alliances and solidarity between them. . . . Yet while social anarchism has been at the forefront of challenging many oppression, most social anarchists have not been very active—either historically or presently—in challenging [...]

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the Iconocast: Calenthia Dowdy (episode 38)

by the Iconocast Collective 23 November 2011

In this episode, Joanna and Mark interview Calenthia Dowdy.
Calenthia Dowdy is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in urban youth culture(s) and Afro-Brazilian life. She teaches youth ministry and cultural anthropology at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Calenthia was born, raised, and continues to reside in the city of Philadelphia. She’s a Philadelphia Mennonite affiliate [...]

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Sins of the Past? reflections on aboriginal justice

by Mark Van Steenwyk 20 November 2011

Author’s Note: I wrote the following after my Christian Peacemaker Teams Delegation to Ontario last year. I thought it was a fitting reflection as we approach Thanksgiving.
Aboriginal justice was largely a non-issue to me until two years ago. This is a sad thing for me to confess. For my entire life, I’ve lived with Native [...]

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Anarchist Threads in Scripture: a primer on Christian anarchism, part 3

by Mark Van Steenwyk 16 November 2011

Editor’s Note: This is the third of a series offering a primer on Christian Anarchism. Please read part one and part two before proceeding.
For most Christians, there is one big reason for rejecting anarchism: it isn’t biblical. Or is it? A superficial reading of the Bible reveals a God who thinks of himself as a [...]

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The Myth of the State As Savior and Elections as Confession of Faith

by Andy Alexis-Baker 8 November 2011

Election season is already gearing up. This is a small excerpt from my article “When There is Nothing to Vote For: Liberalism, John Howard Yoder and the Church,” in Electing Not to Vote: Christian Reflections on Not Voting, ed. Ted Lewis (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008), 10–22.
Through schools, media and in countless fragmentary ways [...]

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A Christian Nation?

by Eda Uca-Dorn 7 November 2011

In one year USAmericans will elect the next President of the United States. Many anarchists, Christian radicals, Catholic Workers, New Monastics and others practicing anti-empire Christianities with community-oriented power nexus will say, “So what?” After all, fewer Americans are getting a piece of the (apple) pie, every 80 minutes a veteran takes his own life, [...]

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Confessing Pacifism, Repenting in Love

by Nichola Torbett 28 October 2011

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for this website that called for a confessing movement. Consider this my first confession, inspired largely by my participation in Occupy Oakland.
Until recently, I have been what one of friends calls a “nonviolence fundamentalist.” Inspired by the movements of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., among [...]

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The Power of Corporations is the Power of the People

by Paul Munn 27 October 2011

“I learned, at that time, a very important lesson,
that one should never underestimate the power of the people.”
(from The Corporation)
In the news recently there have been images of large crowds of people, shouting at the financial towers that line Wall Street. The people, “the 99%,” have showed up to demand an end of the overwhelming [...]

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#OccupyWallStreet: We Make the Road by Walking

by Jake Olzen 25 October 2011

Editor’s Note: This is the third of a series. You’re encouraged to read parts one and two before continuing.
The liberation theologians, and the base communities that influenced them, often repeated the mantra “we make the road by walking” to reflect a liberation praxis of social analysis, theological reflection, and community action. The same could be true [...]

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