Beyond a Brave New World: Anarchism and Christianity for the Coming Age

I will be presenting at the Jesus Radicals Conference this year, entitled " Beyond a Brave New World:
Anarchism and Christianity for the Coming Age." If anyone is interested in attending it is well worth it. The Jesus Radicals are really doing some amazing work weaving Christianity and Anarchism into theory and practice. There website is here: http://www.jesusradicals.com/.

I would recommend :

1) Any of the iconocasts: http://www.jesusradicals.com/category/iconocast/
2) The two articles on Holy Queering. Part 1: http://www.jesusradicals.com/a-holy-queering-rewilding-civilized-sexualities/  and part 2: http://www.jesusradicals.com/a-holy-queering-part-two/

Here is a description of the presentation i will be giving:

Over the years, Christian Anarchists from the United States have developed and sharpened their analysis—redefining what it means to be a Christian living in empire and in the civilization project. However, we cannot stay in the theoretical. Jesus was a practitioner. How do we put this analysis into practice in a globalized context? Communities all over the world have been resisting empire for generations. How do enter into partnerships with them, learn from them, and become allies in a global struggle for liberation? When does our analysis reinforce practices based on privilege and power and when does it help us enter into ally-ship for mutual liberation? This session is rooted in two years experience on the ground in Colombia with Christian Peacemaker Teams and their journey of decolonized praxis in nonviolent resistance.

More information about the Conference:

Beyond a Brave New World:
Anarchism and Christianity for the Coming Age
July 29 & 30, 2011

Location
Faith Mennonite Church
Minneapolis, Minn.

The ninth annual Jesus Radicals conference is scheduled for July 29-30 at Faith Mennonite Church in Minneapolis, Minn. The event will be co-hosted by the Missio Dei community.

This year’s theme is loosely inspired by themes, from Aldous Huxley’s work, Brave New World and will be organized into three core areas, including:

1. Understanding the emerging technologies and forms of social control that will affect our futures
2. Identifying the practices and social structures that condition us so that we are either unwilling or unable to resist these forces of oppression. (Or, to reference Huxley, naming our “somas”)
3. Exploring concrete ways we can live as anarchists and radical followers of Jesus in this unfolding reality.