In addition to lectures, workshops and spaces for conversation, In the Beginning: Anarchism, Christianity and the Roots of Resistance will also feature a solid line-up of musicians at not one, but two evening events. Friday will feature Seth Martin and the Menders and folk musician Bill Jolliff. The conference will also close on Saturday evening [...]

Tena tatou e nga hau e wha, Only two weeks to go till the South Pacific Christian Anarchist regional gathering in Wellington. here’s the details: WHERE: Stillwaters community, The Castle, Willis St, Te Aro, Wellington (New Zealand) WHEN: 6pm Thursday 15 July – 1pm Sunday 18 July THE PROGRAMME As with other years, that’s up [...]

Are you wondering how in the world you are going to cross the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains and the numerous forests interspersed between the coasts to get to the

It has been a while since an update about In the Beginning: Anarchism, Christianity and the Roots of Resistance, but lack of communication doesn’t mean lack of action. For the past few months, organizers have been securing presenters for this year’s event in Portland, most of whose bios are now available on our speakers page. [...]

July 15-18, 2010 will be the fifth annual hui (gathering) of the South Pacific Christian Anarchists, which will be hosted at the Stillwaters Community in Aotearoa (New Zealand). This year’s regional gathering will convene people and communities from across Aotearoa to explore issues of Christian faith, power and powerlessness, non-violence, Anarchism, building community, alternative economics [...]

Organizing for the eighth annual anarchism and Christianity gathering on August 6 and 7 in Portland is in full swing and we are getting more excited as we continue to plan. The theme In the Beginning: Anarchism and Christianity and the Roots of Resistance reflects the sense that too often our attempts to resist systems [...]

Recently two of our friends at The Jesus Manifesto, Mark Van Steenwyk and Joanna Shenk interviewed Jesus Radicals co-founder and organizer Nekeisha Alexis-Baker for episode one of their fledgling Iconocast. Titled “Who Would Jesus Subvert,” the discussion covers a wide range of topics including an introduction to connections between anarchism and Christian, what it is [...]

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, editor of Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives, has added a new book to the growing literature on Christianity and anarchism. Published with Imprint Academic, Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel looks at the work of people like Jacques Ellul, Vernard Eller, Dave Andrews and the Catholic Worker movement and attempts to provide [...]

Get ready folks–this year’s 8th annual anarchism and Christianity conference will be heading to Portland, Ore. on August 6th and 7th. Currently, we are in the beginning stages of the planning process. However, thanks to the work of the co-hosting community, many of the on-the-ground logistics have already begun to come together. We’ll be adding [...]

Two interviews with Dorothy Day, one on the Christopher Closeup Show and one with Hubert Jesse, have recently been added to YouTube. In the interviews, Dorothy discusses the origins of the Catholic Worker movement, shares her theology on war and nonviolence, and talks about the Christian call to the works of mercy, among several other [...]