anabaptism
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🕊🏴Today’s guest preacher is J. Nelson Kraybill, author of one of my favorite accidentally-anarchist books, and a rare non-cringe-y take on Revelation: 📚Apocalypse and Allegiance
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Lots of good releases today. 🎶 Maybe I’ll make a playlist later.
Here’s Silent Planet - Panopticon 🕊 #MetalMennonite
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“Adversity is such a wonderful teacher”
-Jyotirmoy Sarkar, sharing his story today 🕊
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Another good reflection from Experimental Theology:
“Evangelicals, listen to that, read the Bible: Jesus flatly turns the devil down. And I think Jesus does so for many of the reasons we see in 1 and 2 Samuel. The reign of God just can’t be established via a nation state.”
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New abolition curriculum from Mennonite Church USA.
I’m a little surprised to see the denomination being this bold these days, but there’s a good history of it.
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Oh this will be interesting: Just Plain Wrong
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Beautiful Trouble updated their toolkit.
With the new toolkit you can slice and dice depending on what you are considering, and also create pdfs from your favorites.
This is a nice online companion to the deck of cards.
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Before you post out pithy quotes today, try to understand more fully what King fought for, instead of using his own words to soften his points.
Then, together with the Beloved Community, wage nonviolence against the triple evils of poverty, racism, and militarism.
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2020: News & Magazines Review
To view other 2020 review posts, visit thee main post here. Newspapers and News Magazines I tend to prefer “slow ... -
I’ve seen a lot of Borscht recipes (from my Mennonite peoples) but this is the first one I’ve been excited about: https://honest-food.net/ukrainian-borscht-recipe/
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How military veterans are answering the call to defend Black lives
- via Waging Nonviolence
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As we approach the 75th anniversary of the world’s most destructive terror attacks “atomic-bomb survivors seek new ways to keep their memories alive”
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I still have a ways to go, but did some good work on my Resilient booklist this morning.
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Here’s a great podcast intro to Restorative Justice, includes shoutouts to Howard Zehr and Mennonites, which is, unsurprisingly, how I got introduced to the concept in a more concrete way.
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TIL about Common Hymnal
“Common Hymnal is an online library for the Spiritual Underground, a connecting point for an as-yet-uncoalesced movement around the exchange of songs, stories and ideas.”
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I enjoyed this episode of the Inverse podcast
Great conversation around decolonized perspectives on scripture, and a beautiful emphasis on shalom.
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Our church (First Mennonite Indianapolis) community posted a few statements regarding racial justice.
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✝️🕊🏴🌹, in that order
Let me share some of my labels, or identities. Let me share some of my beliefs. You’ll note that I say “in ... -
A message from Glen Guyton of Mennonite Church USA: We Need to Engage in More Costly Peacemaking
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What are you yearning, learning, and hoping for?
This was our question in church this morning, and this was my response: I’m thankful that the Lord of Flies is wr... -
Cool: The Mennonite interviewed Ibram X. Kendi
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Coping with Covid a writeup at Resilient
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Thinking about the confluence of quarantine, Lent, spring break, climate change, & other events.
What have you been learning and evaluating about your rhythms, habits, priorities, & schedule? Are you finding things that weren’t necessary, aligned with your values, etc.?
What’s been harder? What’s been easier? What’s important to you?
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13-yr Mennonite
Sunday, 13 years ago, my spouse and I joined our Mennonite community and church. You might be surprised that a Mennonit... -
4 Values
I was meeting with one of the folks that I mentor/coach today, and they started a great conversation around ikigai. That... -
I liked Malcolm Gladwell’s 📚 Talking to Strangers, but I liked this podcast of him talking about the topic even better. He was more cutting, witty, etc. Great dynamic between Ezra and Malcolm on the show.
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‘King was arrested 29 times in his short life. Many of those times, he was charged with “disturbing the peace.”’
From “Why we need to move closer to King’s understanding of nonviolence” from Waging Nonviolence.
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“The kingdom of heaven is in a basement”
Parables of the Kingdom: a poem from Isaiah Lewis from Mercy Community Church it Atlanta, Georgia.
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I’m a day late, but here’s this year’s results for Public Domain Day! 📚 #AbolishIP
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2019 🎙 Review
When I’m commuting, doing chores, taking a walk, or even playing open-world video games, I often listen to spoken... -
2019 📚 Review: Nonfiction
Overview I set a goal of reading 63 books in 2019, which was a 10% increase over 2019. I met this goal exactly. I have ... -
August Burns Red makes my favorite offbeat Christmas music. Sleddin’ Hill was really good. Here’s the more recent Winter Wilderness EP.
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from Part two of Thank You, Anarchy over at Experimental Theology:
“who do you think is trying harder to obey Jesus, the anarchists or the church?…Matthew 20.25-27”
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Experimental Theology on Anarchy:
I enjoy being a student of resistance movements and anarchist communities because I think the church is a similar type of community and movement.
Yes!
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Awesome new shirt & bag for sustaining members of Waging Nonviolence, along with the description behind each icon.
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We’re seeing more like this, and it’s excellent subversive action like Jesus’s examples of: turning the other cheek, carrying the extra mile, or stripping off and giving your clothes. Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages.
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Sunday quote courtesy of readwise:
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Fort Collins Mennonite Fellowship regains the right to provide storage lockers to homeless in their community. What if more Christians fought for the ability to help people, instead of the ability to harm them?
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TIL: Indianapolis has the second highest number of evictions, second only to NYC (statistic courtesy of Eviction Lab and Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis)
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#GenCon2019 Day 1
I started GenCon off right by going to the gym before opening ceremonies! I am happy of myself! When the expo hall opene... -
#MennoCon19 Delegate Report Day 5 #BringThePeace
Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 We started our final delegate session by discussing the Churchwide Statement on the Ab... -
Churchwide Statement on the Abuse of Child Migrants passes near-unanimously (2 of 495 dissent) #MennoCon19
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And here’s a more detailed story #MennoCon19
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“Immigrants Avoiding Deportation at Churches Face Big Fines” A couple of these sanctuary churches mentioned are Mennonite churches. #MennoCon19
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#MennoCon19 Delegate Report Day 4
Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 We again had two delegate sessions today, with us now moving into more of the “busines... -
We are voting on a new resolution at #MennoCon19 tomorrow. Here’s a scan of the text. “Churchwide Statement on the Abuse of Child Migrants”
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#MennoCon19 Delegate Report Day 3
Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 Thursday’s Delegate Agenda: Tom Yoder Neufeld continued to teach with us, today. He st... -
#MennoCon19 Delegate Report Day 2
Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 We had two delegate sessions, today, as well as two worship sessions and an afternoon ... -
Find #MennoCon19 daily news at the “KC Sauce”.
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#MennoCon19 Delegate Report Day 1
Day 5, Day 4, Day 3, Day 2, Day 1 I arrived early (very early) to Kansas City, with plenty of time to get registered and... -
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