theology

Good News for Whom?

by JoshuaDbauIII 4 November 2009

The Gospel is an announcement, not a secret, that the way in which the world is currently is not the way in which it is supposed to be, nor the way in which it will always be

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Report Back: Gathering Around the Unhewn Stone

by Nekeisha A.B. 21 October 2009

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 [...]

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The Death of progress

by JoshuaDbauIII 6 October 2009

Progress is a god, it is the god to which human life is expendable. Progress is a god of death. Progress in our world means, more, better, faster, stronger, richer, progress is synonymous with the future, where we are heading, whether we are ready or not, the world continues to move forward [...]

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Remembering rightly

by Nekeisha A.B. 13 September 2009

The anniversary of September 11, 2001 in the U.S. represents many things to many people. When I do reflect on it, as I am now, it calls to mind a montage of images from my time in the city both during and after that memorialized day. My computer screen with instant messages from friends living [...]

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Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives

by Nekeisha A.B. 30 August 2009

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 [...]

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Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder

by Andy Alexis-Baker 19 August 2009

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 essays wrestle [...]

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International: South Pacific Christian Anarchists launch new zine

by Nekeisha A.B. 7 August 2009

Our fellow Jesus Radicals from the South Pacific have released the first issue of their new zine Co-Opted? Kia Ngaatahi and it’s a goodie. The aim of the publication is to:
provide some helpful information regarding what we see as the anarchist tendencies of Jesus’ teaching and how his message has been followed and/or distorted by [...]

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Sin Shmin

by JoshuaDbauIII 6 August 2009

It is easy to speak about sin in the abstract, but God doesn’t always get God’s way either and speaking about sin in the particular is much more difficult, thus what we think about sin depends upon the situation in which we find ourselves.

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wagon dreams.

by wastenotwagon 4 August 2009

we talked about solitude
we sang about sharing food
we thought of it night and day

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William Cavanaugh, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove at Ekklesia Project

by Nekeisha A.B. 25 July 2009

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 [...]

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