Building alternative economies that manifest God's love through food justice. Where I work.
Jeremy John
Recent Quotes and Commentaries
- C.S. Lewis: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of
- Margaret Kim Peterson: "And housework of all kinds is increasingly relegated to the fringes of lives filled with other things. In her book The Time Bind
- Charles Eisenstein: "Some would scoff at primitive cave-dwellers who imagined that their representations of animals on cave walls could magically
- Soren Kierkegaard: "The results of reflection are both dangerous and unforeseeable because one can never tell whether the decision which saves a man
Syndicate
Social Justice
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The movement occupying Washington DC, towards the extrication of corporate monies from our governance. Now defunct.
. . .Occupy DC -
Evangelicals reflect on what God's justice looks like. Tony Campolo, longtime Christian activist, and friends.
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Christians occupiers who are serving the Occupy DC movement with a constant, on-the-ground presence.
. . .Occupy Church DC -
Organization working to close the School of the Americas, a training grounds for Latin American soldiers that serves as a pool of contact for CIA-instigated coups.
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The campaign to kick Alvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia, out of Georgetown University.
. . .Uribe Georgetown
Friends
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Feminist and poet. Songs of freedom, whispers of another way.
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Tripp Hudgins, former pastor and a gentle soul. Tripp is always reflecting on something in love. He's an American Baptist.
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A deep South Christian whose spiritual experiments to understand her conservative heritage through new eyes brighten up the path for all of us.
. . .Rachel Held Evans -
Brian Merritt, occupyChurch chaplain, activist on behalf of the homeless. Presbyterian pastor. Somehow, a Calvinist in a good way. Much respect for him.
. . .Pastor of Disaster -
Micah Bales, meatspace friend, activist, occupyChurch chaplain, thinker, and Christian Quaker church-planter.
. . .Lamb's War -
Julie Clawson, author of Everyday Justice and blogger, always a Christian voice for social justice.
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Kurt Willems, a postevangelical christion and serious advocate for social justice.
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One of my best friends, Thomas Doane, writes on history and theology over at Gospel of John.
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My brother, Peter John, a classical pianist and jazz musician.
. . .Pianist Peter John -
Tripp Hudgins, friend and pastor.
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My pastor and friend, Larry Kamphausen, Prior of the Holy Community, working to found a reconciling religious order.
. . .Priestly Goth
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Just finishing up "Another Fine Myth" by Robert Asprin. A totally fun fantasy book. http://t.co/r355pKBvhu — 6 hours 45 min ago |
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"Beware the tyranny of structurelessness." http://t.co/ewocH9giGB — 19 hours 36 min ago |
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@Lironah I too was raised on C.S. Lewis. But fell away as an adolescent when I learned of evolution and marijuana. — 1 day 6 hours ago |
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I was convinced of Christianity by the Gospels themselves. I had encountered nothing like them in all literature. — 1 day 6 hours ago |
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"Were not Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John miracle workers by virtue of having written the Gospels?" Czeslaw Milosz — 1 day 6 hours ago |
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