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GOD's answer to all that is broken was the Incarnation...

A Tea Party, An Occupation and People of the Incarnation

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 | 1 Response

How will our church communities respond to this cry for justice? (click image for source)

Occupy Babylon

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 | 2 Responses

We can live beyond a culture of fear

Living Beyond A Culture of Fear

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 | 1 Response

American Meat the film premiers in Virginia July 9

American Meat (film trailer)

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 | Leave a response

Jesus Died For This? by Becky Garrison is a prophetic gut-punch to our false spirituality

Jesus Died For This? (Book Review)

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 | Leave a response

The Household is the Microcosm of All Community (orginal art by Jean-François Millet (II))

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 3)

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 | Leave a response

Crashing Idols: The Vocation of Will Campbell... (book review)

Crashing the Idols: The Vocation of Will D. Campbell…(book review)

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 | Leave a response

Will Campbell: voice of reconciliation

Will Campbell: Racism and the Church (EthicsDaily Video)

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 | Leave a response

Can we recover an apostolic, missional Christianity here in America?

Alan Hirsch: DNA of Gospel Movements [VERGE Videos]

By Jason Fowler on 01/16/2011

This is a powerful series of short videos featuring Alan Hirsch, missiologist, a key figure in the missional church movement and author of Untamed: Reactivating A Missional Form of Discipleship, The Forgotten Ways and other books. Be warned- you may start asking dangerous questions after watching these…

Posted in Theology, Videos | Tagged Alan Hirsch, church, communitas, Community and Ecclesia, contextual missions, culture, ecclesiology, Jesus, leadership, Misseo Dei, mission, missional, movements, Theology, VERGE, video | 2 Responses

This Xmas/Advent will we let the incarnation transform us? (montage: J Fowler)

Birth of the Rebel Jesus

By Jason Fowler on 12/12/2010

Let us listen to those who challenge our collective imagination, like Jackson Browne who sings of the ‘Rebel Jesus’ and reminds us that if we are to believe in and celebrate GOD’s incarnation we must also live in-step with the ‘upside-down’ kingdom of the King who became a servant to us all…

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Posted in Features, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged Advent, christmas, culture, holidays, Jackson Browne, Jesus, Jesus birth, kingdom of GOD, Rebel Jesus, Santa Claus, song, St. Nicholas, the incarnation, video | 3 Responses

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