If you’re near Grand Rapids, Mich. on January 22-23 and want to start the new calendar year off with a new outlook drop by Calvin College for the annual Wake Up Weekend for nonhuman animal awareness and advocacy.
This year, the featured guest will be Vegan Soul Kitchen eco-chef and bestselling cookbook author Bryant Terry. Other [...]

I was really interested to hear about an upcoming anti-civilization discussion that is taking place next week in Gothenburg. Although I am not sure how far along the anarcho-primitivism/anti-civ conversation is in Swedish circles, or how much Christians are a part of the discussion, it was interesting to see that even people in [...]

Energizing. Transforming. Eye-opening. Disrupting. Like most symbols, these words don’t begin to capture the experience I had at the Gathering Around the Unhewn Stone conference over the weekend. Simply put Ched Myers gives one of the most devastating critiques of civilization and he digs deep into the Christian story to do it. His presentations were [...]

The Gathering Around the Un-hewn Stone conference is right around the corner (October 16-18) and it looks like it is shaping up to be an event filled with great topics, speakers and music. Circle of Hope, Croatan Studio and In the Land of the Living have pulled together a detailed schedule so folks know what [...]

Our friends at the Ekklesia Project had another excellent gathering in Chicago this year with speakers engaging issues around how the household that is Christ’s Body might faithfully engage economics: What is God’s household management (or home economics) style? How does God care for creation? And how do we who are invited to [...]

On October 16-18, the folks at Circle of Hope in Philadelphia will host activist theologian and author Ched Myers for a biblical exploration of nature, civilization and feral faith. The conference will focus on Sabbath/hunter-gatherer economics, rewilding and resistance, and engage our biblical origin stories for signs of hope in the midst of the [...]

September 4-7, 2009
19183 Plow Creek Road
Tiskilwa, IL
CALLING ALL WOMEN: You’re invited to a weekend of community and camping; hanging with old friends and making new ones; nature; discussion of anarcha-primitivism theory and practice; and what it means to be a woman in the Church. The communitarian nature of this gathering includes shared labor, [...]