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CALL: Must I Be Anarchist?

by Amaryah Armstrong 26 December 2011

(Or, Why Are All the Anarchists Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?)
Editor’s Note: This piece is part one of a series of call and response between Amaryah Armstrong and Nekeisha Alexis-Baker as they consider what possibilities Christian anarchy can provide for marginalized peoples. The conversation grows out of friendship and mutual respect for each other, and [...]

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RESPONSE: It depends on how we define “anarchist”

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 26 December 2011

(Or, I hope it is because we are all recovering hierarchists trying to find another way forward)
Editor’s Note: This piece is part two of a series of call and response between Amaryah Armstrong and Nekeisha Alexis-Baker as they consider what possibilities Christian anarchy can provide for marginalized peoples. The conversation grows out of friendship and [...]

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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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Occupied Movements, Colonized Minds

by Eda Uca-Dorn 5 October 2011

Some of us who watch in awe and delight at the incredible well of energy, perseverance, and hope of the Occupy Wall Street movement are getting word of anti-racist critiques of the language and organizing strategies, particularly around declarative statements released on the Occupy Wall Street website and dispersed to media outlets. It is important [...]

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The Talking Book, The Racial Wealth Gap, and What To Do About It

by Eda Uca-Dorn 1 September 2011

In The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2006), Allen Dwight Callahan illuminates the unique history of African American exegesis, highlighting especially Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. In it, Callahan takes on the American myth and the grotesque irony that “the land that the Puritan founders called the Promised [...]

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SEX. RACE. MONEY. Rolling Away the Stone in the Beloved Community

by Administrator 4 April 2011

Event announcement: New Web course
This Resurrection Season we ask: Is my liberation bound up in yours?
The Hosanna! People’s Seminary (H!PS) Communities Initiative is hosting an Eastertide liberation training program, SEX. RACE. MONEY. Rolling Away the Stone in the Beloved Community. Well facilitated sessions on gender/sexuality and class/race in our communities will include presentations by Onleilove [...]

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Our Common Ground (Part 1): Nonhuman animal exploitation and Black enslavement

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 15 February 2011

A complex web of social, political, and economic factors sustained slavery and made possible the life of a slave as it was known . . . there are distinct social, political and economic factors which create and support the subjugation of animals . . . But, as divergent as the cruelties and the supporting system [...]

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The Women Who Gave Us Christmas

by William Katz 24 December 2010

Before Christmas emerged as a commercial success it led a checkered social life. In the 13 colonies it was known not as a Silent Night, Holy Night but as a heavy drinking, brawling festival, a raucous blend of July 4th and New Years Eve.
But as the struggle over slavery in the United States heated up [...]

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Iconocast Episode 14: Onleilove Alston

by the Iconocast Collective 2 October 2010

In this episode, co-hosts Joanna and Mark talk to Onleilove Alston, a native Brooklynite and student at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University School of Social Work. Onleilove has worked with and studied emerging intentional communities and brings some helpful insights to potential blindspots folks in such communities have about race. She is a regular contributor for Sojourner’s [...]

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Analyzing Avatar: A Review Essay

by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 14 February 2010

By the time I decided to see James Cameron’s Avatar, I had already heard enough about the film to be unsure whether it would be worth the time, effort and petroleum to see it. People’s comments about the film ranged from praise for its groundbreaking 3D animation; to criticism of its racist portrayal of the [...]

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