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 [...]

We’re happy to report that we have video recordings from the anarchism and Christianity conference to share—and they are free. Thanks to videographer and producer Ljuba Miltsova (Cation Productions), you can see this year’s presentations by Layla AbdelRahim (“A Lullaby for the Planet: Undressing Ourselves for a Viable Parenthood”) and John Zerzan (“Anarcho-Primitivism versus [...]

MP3s of the Open Forum discussions with John Zerzan and Layla AbdelRahim from this year’s anarchism and Christianity conference are now available.
The Open Forum is an unstructured time at the Jesus Radicals conference for people to gather for conversation based on shared interests. This year, Layla and John agreed to have an extended conversation with [...]

Last week, John Zerzan hosted folk musician, Christian, and anarchist Seth Martin on his Anarchy Radio show. In addition to performing three of his songs live, Seth shared his perspectives on anarchism, Christianity and anarcho-primitivism and the ways in which he has come to hold them together. Seth reflects on his own journey to [...]

A post-conference reflection – Tim Dunbar
The passion of Ethan Hughes. It would be very hard for anyone to listen to Ethan and leave uninspired. Not only was he passionate about what he and his friends are doing (and they are actually doing it, not just talking about it) he had a lot [...]

The New Heaven, New Earth: Anarchism and Christianity Beyond Empire conference brought close to 250 people together to talk, dance, learn, sing, worship, and fellowship. There were rich presentations on civilization and anarcho-primtivism, explorations in anarcho-primitivist parenting, forthright conversations on race, racism and being anti-racist activists, personal stories of living out God’s gift economy, insights [...]

On Tuesday, John Zerzan, who was one of our key speakers at this years anarchism and Christianity conference, took up nearly half of his show to talk about the conference this past weekend. Sometimes when Zerzan goes to conferences, he comes back and goes on his radio show and says it was a waste [...]

In the spirit of this year’s New Heaven, New Earth, theme this year’s anarchism and Christianity conference will close with a joyful noise at our Jubilation Celebration featuring theillalogicalspoon and Lesser Beggars.
theillalogicalspoon will shower us with “psalms watered by our nomadic-hobo ramblings, rooted and growing out of our particular place in the great lakes [...]

This year, we decided to seek out artistic submissions for this year’s conference poster. Thanks to Marcos Silva (aka markeetoo)–a graphic designer from Manaus – Amazonas – Brasil–we now have a great one to share.
You can download a large (5.8 MB) or a smaller (3.9 MB) full-color version of the poster for printing. Or [...]

We’ve got more exciting updates on the New Heaven, New Earth: Anarchism and Christianity Beyond Empire conference, so here goes:
More Speakers
The speakers keep on coming with Layla AbdelRahim (left) and Eileen Fleming (right) joining the list of presenters. Layla brings her anti-authoritarian perspective and critical work on domestication of parenthood and childhood to the session, [...]