Destruction of the World Corporate Structure
I wrote this for a group of hard core youth who were into anarchy: Injustice reigns in the earth. Capitalism is corrupt, only granting freedom to the wealthy, while the poor get ground in the dust. The...
View ArticleRecession Revolution
This is part of a discussion on the PNMC Peace And Justice Forum: I think it is time for the church to reconsider its politics.. I’m not advocating that we all try to get elected or take over the...
View ArticleA Platform for MCUSA
I have been involved in some pretty strange things–a church planter of an all-homeless/mentally ill congregation; encouraging leaders of a mosque in Bangladesh to re-think Jesus; dumpster diving for...
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gay/evangelical love
Love is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community Andrew Marin InterVarsity Press Published: March 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8308-3626-0 If you were to meet Andrew Marin (and providing...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean To Be Anabaptist?
I’ve got some new friends who had never heard of anabaptism. So I wrote a summary of what I understand Anabaptism to be. Look it over. What would you add or subtract? What would you nuance differently?...
View ArticleAnawim Theology and Avatar
Anawim theology is the biblical theology of God’s salvation of the poor and outcast. It is strongly linked to anabaptist theology. “Anawim” is a Hebrew term that means “the poor seeking the Lord for...
View ArticleNow I Understand
This last year our church determined that we would open to shelter the local homeless each time the weather went below freezing, but the city wouldn’t permit other churches to open up. We live in a...
View ArticleActive, Effective Theology: A Response to J. Denny Weaver
Recently, J. Denny Weaver spoke of his conversion from “passive” non-resistance and two-kingdom theology to an active stance against evil (reflection: can Mennonites use the term “evil”?) in Wisconsin....
View ArticleCloser: reflections on the trinity
God created us without us; but God did not will to save us without us. ~ Augustine of Hippo I have always found good company with the apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans when he writes about the...
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Mennonites on the Bowery
There’s a building boom on the Bowery these days. It’s been happening for a while, but the last couple years have witnessed an escalation in development, turning the neighborhood into a hip...
View ArticleManifesto of the Marginal Mennonite Society
We are Marginal Mennonites, and we are not ashamed. We are marginal because no self-respecting Mennonite organization would have us. (Not that we care about no stinkin’ respect anyway.) We reject all...
View ArticleJesus sayings from the Sermon on the Mount (the Marginal Mennonite version)
(Revised November 2011) The Sermon on the Mount is defined as the 40+ sayings of Jesus found in Matthew 5, 6 and 7. About half of those sayings are considered by scholars to be non-authentic (meaning...
View ArticleBruderville 2020: An urban anabaptist odyssey
… Picture this: As the new millennium dawns, anabaptists do a new thing in the city: Build a communal neighborhood populated by tens of thousands of simple-living sectarians. The project is initiated...
View ArticleFinal Judgment: A Parable
On the great day of judgment, all of humanity was gathered in a celestial banquet hall. It was a huge space, with a massive round table in the middle. The table was so big that it accommodated what...
View ArticleSave Buddhism from Christian Missionaries: A Manifesto
Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity are some of the hallmarks of the teachings of Jesus. But those concepts didn’t originate with Jesus. He found them tucked away in the nooks and crannies of the...
View ArticleViolence Begets Violence
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.” — Matthew 26:52 (KJV) ‎”Hate begets hate; violence begets violence;...
View ArticleDid He Mean It?
As I am sure we all know, there was a tragic shooting in an elementary school up in Connecticut. This is not the first shooting in this country either — not at all. It seems like every week or so that...
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The Occupy movement through the lens of love
Crossposted from As of Yet Untitled Occupy Love is an ambitious documentary. In an hour and 30 minutes, it attempts to offer a short history of Occupy Wall Street. It traces the roots of the movement...
View ArticleMC USA Statement on LGBTQ Communities
MENNONITE CHURCH USA CHURCHWIDE STATEMENT ON LGBTQ COMMUNITIES, DIVERSITY, POWER, OPPRESSION &Â PRIVILEGE* Introduction Mennonite Church USA has roots in seventeenth-century churches planted by...
View ArticleThey Obtained Much Following
16th century German historiographer and reporter Sebastian Franck (1499-1543) wrote concerning the Anabaptists in his work Chronik (III, fol. 188): The course of the Anabaptist was so swift, that their...
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