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Catholic Peace Fellowship
The purpose of the CPF is to support Catholic conscientious objectors through education, counseling, and advocacy. Guided by a personalist philosophy, the CPF seeks to resist war by helping those who choose not to participate in it, one person at a time.

Catholic Worker
The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person, their movement was committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, and the Works of Mercy as a way of life. It wasn't long before Dorothy and Peter were putting their beliefs into action, opening a "house of hospitality" where the homeless, the hungry, and the forsaken would always be welcome. Over many decades the movement has protested injustice, war, and violence of all forms.Today there are some 130 Catholic Worker communities in the United States.

Christian Peacemaker Teams
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is an organization committed to reducing violence by "Getting in the Way"—challenging systems of domination and exploitation as Jesus Christ did in the first century. A project of the Mennonite Churches, Church of the Brethren and Friends United Meeting and other Christians, CPT has worked in Haiti, the Middle East, Bosnia, Chechnya, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, and the USA. In all locations, CPT responds to invitations from grassroots movements seeking to rectify injustice in nonviolent ways.

Doulos Christou Press
Is a small independent publishing press that is dedicated to getting out radical discipleship materials

Disseminary
The Disseminary stands for an approach to education and educational materials apart from the constraints of institutional education: credits, fees, restrictive copyright limitations, grades, and other limitations. The project envisions a variety of educational resources offered at no charge, for no formal credit. Such resources may in the long run include publications, asynchronous seminar discussions (kept available in archives), chats, interviews, audio and video recordings.

Ekklesia Project
A project designed for discipleship of the Christian community. Some of the best theologians in America are currently working on this project, such as Stanley Hauerwas, Walter Brueggemann, etc along with pastors and lay persons. Some of the literature on this site is from these people (with their authorization).

The Ellul Forum
The Ellul Forum has been published twice per year since August of 1988. Without treating his works as sacred literature, their goal is to analyze and apply Jacques Ellul's thought to aspects of our technological civilization and carry forward both his sociological and theological analyses in new directions. The site is maintained by the International Jacques Ellul Society. One mission they have is to preserve and make broadly available Ellul's written and teaching legacy by:
(1) completing the publication of Ellul's work in French (several works remain),
(2) completing the English translation of his work and encouraging translations in other languages,
(3) republishing (in electronic as well as print formats) works that are no longer available,
(4) publishing a critical edition of Ellul's complete works in both French and English,
(5) maintaining a current, comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Ellul,
(6) organizing and making available the audio and video recordings of Ellul's lectures and interviews,
7) making available an accurate biography of Ellul.

Fors Clavigera: Thoughts on politics, culture, the Church, and more from James K.A. Smith

James Smith is a professor of philosophy at Calvin College. On his blog he often provides penetrating analysis of current Christian thought. (One of our favorite analysis of Jim Wallis and his mask for the a neo-Constantianism amongst the left.)

House Church Central
House Church Central is dedicated to the growing house church movement and endeavors to provide house churches with:
1) A channel for the interchange of ideas
2) A source for solid, Christian theology
3) A catalog of resources for the house church
(They also have a library of works by Vernard Eller including the book Christian Anarchy which this site highly recommends for reading.)

Kingdom Now
Kingdom Now is an umbrella organization of groups and individuals rallied around two central themes:
1) A call for Christians to see themselves as citizens of God's Kingdom
2) And thus, also a call for churches in the United States to flee their idolatrous sins of nationalism.
They have written "95 Theses on the Nationalistic Idolatry of the Church in the United States" and they plan to have an intense period of distributing this statement during Lent 2002, a season of the Church calendar marked by repentance.

New Monasticism
"Throughout the history of the church, monastic movements have emerged to explore new ways of life in the abandoned places of society." This site offers some helpful literature and way sof living the Gospel that call us to a new economic and political order.

Psalters
The Psalters are a worship band. They led the worship music for the 2005 Christianity and Anarchism Conference. Their gypsy like music provides a breath of fresh air: theologically and politically astute with beats and sounds that bring new life to the worship of our God.

Radical Christ
The primary mission of Radical Christ Ministries (RCM) is to provide tools for developing a radical faith. For faith in Jesus Christ is truly a radical proposition for all people today.

Zoecarnate
zoecarnate.com connects over 3,000 alternative Christian websites, to one another and the web in general. Here you will find everything from Christ-centered mysticism to decentralized church, from music to peacemaking to church history to postmodern culture. A definitive guide to the spiritual underground.