“Anarchy” can sound to some like a scary word. To us, it sounds like courageous resistance against the wholesale capitalist mechanization of modern life. And combined with worship, it’s a deeply powerful tool. In this issue, we hear from folks who are doing on-the-ground experiments in holy mutuality.

• Regulars
• Editorial: The list
  Melanie Dennis Unrau 6
• Letters 8
• Sinner’s Corner: Litterer
  Margot Starbuck 12
• Comic: Let’s eat brains
  Justin Petkau 13
• Guest Column: I can’t easily dissociate from oppressors
  Joanna Shenk 14
• Pastor’s Wife for sale, half off!
  Carrie S. Martin 15
• Comic: Anarcrow!
  Tripp York and Zak Upright 20
• Poetry
• On paradise
  Suzanne Buffam 46
• genderclassrace
  David Ball 50
• Culturosities 16
• Tame Goose
  Sarah Mikhaiel 16
• Champions for Jesus
• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
• Leo Tolstoy
• Subway ads
• Autonomous together
• Christo-anarchism is not a belief but a move toward non-domination
  Mark Van Steenwyk 26
• There goes my faith in the system
  Kathryn Gray 29
• A dash of cold water for Christian anarchism
  John G. Stackhouse Jr. 38
• Tear the whole thing down
  Andy Lewis 42
• Another ism? No thanks
  Hillary Brown 47
• It all comes apart at the kitchen sink
  Maria Drews 48
• Must I be anarchist?
  Amaryah Armstrong 51
• Of radicals and root vegetables
  Leanne Wild 52
• Jesus Radicals, reflection from a co-founder
  Nekeisha Alexis-Baker 54
• As a church resists domestication it becomes a ‘wild space’
  Ric Hudgens 56
• Radical on the bookshelf
  Keegan Osinski 58
• Expressions of Anarchy
• Everyone participates
  Paula Spurr 30
• Relaxed hair
  Leah Archibald 31
• Start with a dance
  John Jay Alvaro 32
• Bend the rules
  Rusty Poulette 33
• Locate the margins
  Shannon T. L. Kearns 34
• Lack of charity
  Jared Both 35
• Hardly noticeable
  Colin Mathewson 36
• Build bridges
  Tyler Wittenmyer 37
• Experiments 64
• Coming out, together
• DIY dish soap
• Lights out for Advent
• Civil Disobedience 68
• It’s a f**king protest
• Arrested for love
• Teddy bear drop
• News 72
• Feministry 72
• The political theology of Pussy Riot
• Nuns refuse to back down
• Christian Peacemaker Teams 73
• Peasants defend rights amid persecution
• Catholic Worker 74
• No need to ‘Get a life’
• Homemakers help stir pot
• Reviews 76
• Eating Dirt
• It Gets Better
• God is Subversive
• Gandhi and the Unspeakable
• A Public Faith