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Mark Van Steenwyk posted a blog entry

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:55:15 -0700

There’s an upside to economic disaster
The first line in Charles Dickens classic novel A Tale of Two Cities seems appropriate for what’s likely to come in the days...
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:15:55 -0700

Movie Review: Religulous
I saw Bill Maher’s Religulous on Saturday night. Maher, along with Borat director Larry Charles, has produced a...
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:39:42 -0700

The Body, The Blood, The Border
Editor’s Note: The following was originally published on October 6, 2008 on Ecclesiacollective.org “[T]he Eucharist...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:00:00 -0700

Reputable Peace
General Editor’s Note: Kimberly Roth will be stepping down from her editorial role at Jesus Manifesto. Since April 2008,...
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0700

Review: ‘Jesus Wants to Save Christians’
I would love to meet the new hires at Zondervan. First they publish Shane Claiborne’s subversive first book, The...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:39:17 -0700

The Common Root Launched
Last week, thecommonroot.org was launched. The Common Root is a network for communities committed to Jesus’ radical way...
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:21:32 -0700

on justice
1 the scroll of the prophet was handed to me release the oppressed shout favor found in God today the scripture of the Lord is...
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Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:36:22 -0700

Imagination and the Way of Christ
I’m reading Robert Inchausti’s Subversive Orthodoxy with our two Missio Dei apprentices. Sadly, this gem of a book...
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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:03:25 -0700

When is enough enough?
It must be one of the questions that have been asked since the beginning of rational thought. Looking around at the world, the...
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:51:04 -0700

A Christian Presenter at Pagan Pride!?
Yesterday was the Pagan Pride event in North Andover, MA. I had been invited to give a workshop at the event. Matt the Pirate,...
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:38:40 -0700

Economic Matters: Socializing the Risk or Capitalizing the Reward?
I for one support the goals and views of Jesus Manifesto wholeheartedly. But I tend to read these goals through economics...
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Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:59:36 -0700

Homoemergicus Maximus
Call me homoemergicus maximus. I’m white, 32, and male. And chances are, so are you. We are slightly overweight, own way...
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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:35:12 -0700

The Death of Evelyn and the Failure of the Church
A heavy girl, perhaps 250 pounds, Evelyn’s greasy, stringy hair only served to accentuate her poor skin. Her weight made...
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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:33:39 -0700

The Man and The Couch
There is a man. And we’re sitting on his back. Not directly on his back; but the couch we’re on does sit on his...
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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:36:28 -0700

Thy Kingdome Come
**The following was inspired in part as I was reading N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope,” a work of theology which is...
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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:29:43 -0700

Traveler´s City
Everything was new and beautiful. We were free and unattached. A vague itinerary had us wandering through the forests and dunes...
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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:25:36 -0700

3 Openings at Radical Living in New York City
Radical Living–a new monastic community in New York City–has rooms for 1 female and 2 males. They are, from what...
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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:02:12 -0700

Striving for a Just Peace without the Myth of Redemptive Violence
The gospel of Jesus Christ is so central to the Christian faith that no other alleged “gospel” can ever be acceptable. No...
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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:14:46 -0700

My Political Memoir
(originally published on Steve Holt’s blog) If you haven’t noticed, 2008 is an election year. (Some of you just...
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Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:05:13 -0700

When is it ok to be a jerk?
I am committed to nonviolence. But sometimes I wish I could reach through the computer screen and slap someone senseless. If...
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