About four years ago now, I attended the first Wake Up Weekend vegan event at Calvin College as a skeptical pseudo-vegetarian. (Yes. I admit that at that time I was–for some inexplicable reason–still convinced that fish were not animals.) I could see why killing cows, pigs, chicken and other animals for food was problematic–especially from [...]

The Naked Anabaptist, published on April 1, is not a joke. It is a remarkably accessible presentation of Anabaptism as good news for people today of all traditions who want to follow Jesus. Its author, Stuart Murray, is English and writes from the experience of the Anabaptist Network in the UK. The Network’s members, like [...]

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 [...]

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 a [...]

“The churches in North America today are pushed around by a number of calendars: agricultural seasons, school terms, Hallmark moments, patriotic memorials, sporting championships, and waves of entertainment and commerce. All these are pressed onto a calendar of twelve roughly lunar months, all pressing for the churches to correspond to their patterns. But for a [...]

In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it’s too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the [...]

During the gathering in Philadelphia, many of the speakers mentioned resources that have shaped their anti-civilization theology and practice in a Christian perspective. We’ve included a list of some of those writings in the book discussion section of the forum for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the “anarcho-primitivist” analysis.

This fall will mark the release of a book project that brings together twelve people who hold both anarchism and religious faith as significant parts of their identities. Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives features anarchists from Christian, Buddhist, Muslim and Daoist traditions whose essays “provide an outline history of some of the leading currents of religious [...]

A new book has just been released that engages the work of John Howard Yoder: Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder, edited by Jeremy Bergen and Anthony Siegrist. Scottdale, PA.: Herald Press, 2009. Herald Press describes the book this way: A new generation engages the theology of John Howard Yoder. These [...]