By Jason Fowler on 04/17/2012
In the book Tom and Christine Sine say: “At the center of GOD’s purpose for a people and a world is the word shalom…A Jewish friend explained that originally this greeting meant, “May you live in anticipation of the day when GOD makes all things whole again.”
Posted in Excerpts, Voice of One Calling | Tagged american dream, book excerpt, books, christian faith, culture, future, GOD's kingdom, history, Jesus, kingdom living, mission, missional, missional living, new earth, shalom, Whole-life Christian faith, whole-life discipleship |
By Jason Fowler on 12/07/2011
Maybe the answer is not a tea party or an occupation or any protest movement after all. I believe we must give ourselves, as disciples of Jesus, to another movement – to His living Body – a people who are again re-incarnating a kingdom not of this world…
Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christmas, culture, embodying our faith, incarnate, Jesus, occupy, politics, the Church, the incarnation, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 11/29/2011
We do not want a replacement for the current system of global capitalism, we want something altogether different, something that is hard to imagine in the midst of Empire…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook | Tagged activism, Babylon, Bible, Christianity and Empire, culture, economics, empire, GOD's kingdom, money, occupy, politics, protest, sabbath economics, Scripture, society |
By Jason Fowler on 09/12/2011
Jaques Ellul said: “The more security and guarantees we want against things, the less free we are. Tyrants are not to be feared today, but our own frantic need of security is…Helen Keller observed, “Security is mostly a superstition…”
Posted in Features, Society and Culture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged culture, discipleship, faith, fear, GOD, Jesus, Media |
By Jason Fowler on 07/08/2011
What I find unique about this film project is they seem to be using it as merely a starting point for action. The film American Meat is apparently connected with a video-based social network called Leave It Better and another sister project Harvest Cloud…
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture, Videos | Tagged agriculture, culture, environment, film, food, foodie films, Joel Salatin, local food, local food movement, movie, Sustainable Agriculture, Virginia |
By Jason Fowler on 04/19/2011
This book is wonderfully offensive…There is a bit of a gut-punch in their for all of us. And if we’re willing to leave our pseudo-piety behind we will discover that there is indeed a promised land for those of us who are willing to laugh at ourselves and strike out on a soul-searching journey towards the risen Jesus…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, books, christian faith, Christianity, church culture, culture, GOD, humor, Jesus, religion, resurrection |
By Thomas Turner on 01/26/2011
“A man who is in the traditional sense a good farmer is husbandman and husband, the begetter and conserver of the earth’s bounty, but he is also…a nurturer of life. His work is domestic: he is bound to the household…the household is the microcosm of all community.
Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, Christian agrarian, Community and Ecclesia, Consumerism, culture, culturemaking, family, farming, household, industrial agriculture, intellectual agrarian, local, local culture, Mad Farmer, marriage, place, poetry, society, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Living, Wendell Berry |
By Chris Enstad on 01/17/2011
Born in 1924, in southern Mississippi, Campbell came of age in one of the most racially divided parts of the most racially divided state in the Union…Campbell is an ordained Southern Baptist minister but, like most iconoclasts and prophets, no institution could find a good use for him, nor could he for them…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Heroes and Prophets, Justice, Society and Culture | Tagged book review, christian faith, culture, idols, racial reconciliation, Will Campbell |
By Jason Fowler on 01/17/2011
Why are the local churches in America the last place to see racial reconciliation- even in 2011? Author, farmer, activist and “renegade Baptist preacher” Will Campbell talks candidly about racism and the church (a clip from EthicsDaily’s DVD ‘Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism‘).
Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Justice, Society and Culture, Videos | Tagged Christianity, church, church culture, culture, ecclesia, Martin Luther King Jr, racial reconciliation, racism, racism and the church, religion, Will Campbell |
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