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Spiritual Concerns
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The Pastor’s Wife
This dream’s gotta change
The Pastor’s Wife considers utopia and what it means to her.
Taking a Consumption Sabbath
A group of Christians from mostly Mennonite and Anglican backgrounds held an old-fashioned revival event in Winnipeg on Earth Day that called for a Consumption Sabbath.Announcement: Consumption Sabbath
We’re co-sponsoring an old fashioned tent revival meeting with a radical twist: it’s on Earth Day, so we’re inviting people to admit their complicity in an over-consumptive society and take a pledge to shift their thinking (change their hearts?) and, hopefully, change their ways.New article online: Occupy Wall Street’s altar call
Josiah Neufeld explores stories that articulate why the Occupy movement holds a critical imperative for Christians in North America.Occupy Wall Street’s altar call
Josiah Neufeld explores stories that articulate why the Occupy movement holds a critical imperative for Christians in North America.
A drifter hears sermons in empty sanctuaries
Josiah Neufeld visits six Winnipeg churches from different eras in an attempt to answer two questions: “How does this space make me feel? And, what kind of god might I meet here?”
Three stations of the activist soul
Josiah Neufeld discusses what he has termed the three stages of the spiritual path of an activist.
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Sinner’s Corner
Sinner’s Corner: I have been gluttonous
With the goal of supporting church-based development, I have allowed myself to be gluttonous.
Reverence for the Sacred Land: A Response to Endemic Violence in Central America
Tobias Roberts explores violence El Salvador and searches for ways to create a less violent world.Monoculture is diabolical, diversity is divine
Shane Claiborne of the Simple Way visits an urban farm in Brazil. He discovers that the recession may be a way for people to recapture imagination and create community.