Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?
Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?
Posted 2 days ago

What cannot but strike the eye in the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is the conspicuous absence of Muslim fundamentalism. In the best secular democratic tradition, people simply revolted against an oppressive regime, its corruption…

Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?
Iconocast Episode 23: Ragan Sutterfield
Iconocast Episode 23: Ragan Sutterfield
Posted 4 days ago

In this episode, Sarah and Mark interview Ragan Sutterfield.

Ragan is a writer, teacher, and farmer in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has written on food, the environment, and culture for a variety of publications including Plenty, Gourmet,…

Iconocast Episode 23: Ragan Sutterfield
The Wild Space of Christian Community
The Wild Space of Christian Community
Posted 6 days ago

At the beginning of the twentieth century it was theologian Karl Barth who first raised the question of a domesticated God: a God tamed, confined, and muted by humanity’s drive to control and domination. Only…

The Wild Space of Christian Community
Pirates big and small
Pirates Big and Small: Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Posted 6 days ago

The pirates of Somalia had a busy year, seizing 49 vessels and 1,016 hostages in 2010. Of those 1,016, eight were killed and 13 wounded over the year. It is a lucrative business. Figures are…

Pirates Big and Small: Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
A New-Old Call to Radical Christian Community
A New-Old Call to Radical Christian Community
Posted 11 days ago

"Community", "Radical Discipleship", "Prophetic Witness": An urgent and self-giving Christianity has taken hold of the imaginations of a new generation of the faithful. Group houses of sincere young folks earnestly desiring to live for Christ…

A New-Old Call to Radical Christian Community
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Why fear the Arab revolutionary spirit?

by Slavoj Žižek February 5, 2011
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What cannot but strike the eye in the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt is the conspicuous absence of Muslim fundamentalism. In the best secular democratic tradition, people simply revolted against an oppressive regime, its corruption and poverty, and demanded freedom and economic hope. The cynical wisdom of western liberals, according to which, in Arab countries, [...]

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Iconocast Episode 23: Ragan Sutterfield

by the Iconocast Collective February 3, 2011
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In this episode, Sarah and Mark interview Ragan Sutterfield.
Ragan is a writer, teacher, and farmer in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has written on food, the environment, and culture for a variety of publications including Plenty, Gourmet, Men’s Journal, Paste, Books & Culture, Fast Company, and Spin. He is also the author of Farming as a Spiritual [...]

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The Wild Space of Christian Community

by Ric Hudgens February 1, 2011
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At the beginning of the twentieth century it was theologian Karl Barth who first raised the question of a domesticated God: a God tamed, confined, and muted by humanity’s drive to control and domination. Only a few years later Europe saw that the progressive domestication of God did not lead to freedom but to [...]

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Pirates Big and Small: Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

by Graham Cameron January 31, 2011
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The pirates of Somalia had a busy year, seizing 49 vessels and 1,016 hostages in 2010. Of those 1,016, eight were killed and 13 wounded over the year. It is a lucrative business. Figures are difficult to come by, but the pirates have seized cargoes worth many millions of dollars, and ransom money is frequently [...]

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A New-Old Call to Radical Christian Community

by Eda Uca-Dorn January 27, 2011
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“Community”, “Radical Discipleship”, “Prophetic Witness”: An urgent and self-giving Christianity has taken hold of the imaginations of a new generation of the faithful. Group houses of sincere young folks earnestly desiring to live for Christ and serve the poor are springing up like daisies after a summer rain. It is humbling to witness the movement [...]

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The Blessed and the Cursed

by Joe Turner January 25, 2011
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I recently came across a very ancient idea – or it might have just been in a book by Terry Pratchett, I forget. The idea was that there is a direct link between one person being blessed and another cursed. So for every person that lives in luxury, there is an equal an opposite person [...]

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The Power that Springs from Weakness

by Boyd Collins January 18, 2011
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Parables such as “The Laborers in the Vineyard” (Matt. 20:1-16) have long been used to justify worker’s oppression by sanctioning the role of owners. So ingrained are interpretations supportive of the owners that even radicals instinctively identify the owner of the vineyard with God. Such an identification invokes divine sanction for the supremacy of the [...]

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The Violent Martin Luther King, Jr.?: Setting the Record Straight

by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy January 18, 2011
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I don’t know if the Ministry of Truth and its Newspeak Department in Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four would have had the chutzpah and insolence to try to cleverly demean, diminish and transvalue Martin Luther King, Jr.’s truth and legacy the way the Uncle Tom—who today shamelessly serves the big plantation owners’ of the White House he [...]

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Born (Again) in a Manger

by Ben Adam January 17, 2011
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The ties between the U.S. Empire and the Roman Empire are incredible.  Before I go any further, we need to put forward some very plain truths.  First, the U.S. itself is an empire.  The movement from the Atlantic coastline to the Pacific was imperial.  People lived on the west coast before the fledgling U.S. committed [...]

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Digger’s Agape

by Keith Hebden January 11, 2011
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The 1650s heralded Britain the ‘Commonwealth’ instead of the Kingdom as Oliver Cromwell’s supporters did the theologically-unthinkable and removed the head of God’s representative on earth – King Charles I. The national experiment didn’t last long but it’s legacy in local religious uprisings lives on in constantly renewed experiment.
Among the dissenting radicals were the Society [...]

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