JesusManifesto.com has won the 2007 Millennia Foundation’s Award for Personal Participatory Media. This year’s other winners include: today at the mission, the kindlings muse, a living alternative, naked pastor, next wave.

The timing couldn’t be better. As we receive this award, we are embarking upon a new direction…one that will (hopefully) only improve JesusManifesto.com. From now on, it isn’t a blog–JesusManifesto.com is a webzine. Take a look around…I hope you like what you see. And for all of you RSS readers, please leave the safe confines of your feed reader and take a peek at the new layout. I think you’ll like it.

Here’s more about the award:

The Millennia Foundation views Participatory Media as the “new printing press” – an emerging global venue in which ideas and imagination, not structural or positional power, moderate dialogue. PPM encourages an emancipation of knowledge and personal responsibility, reawakening dreams buried in the slumber of institutional hierarchy and control. Wisdom (see Proverbs) is the new gatekeeper and community is reborn as a network of conversations.

Excellence in PPM invites passionate dialogue while remaining hospitable, charitable, and beneficial to all participants. Millennia Awards ($500) are given to PPM communities which bridge superficial cultural and religious divides – exploring commonality as much as difference; maintaining fresh, creative, missional formats accessible and relevant to a diverse audience; remaining sensitive to our shared humanity and common need for grace as we learn and grow together.

Thank you Millennia Foundation! And congrats to the other winners. We are honored to be esteemed along with such worthy sites!

About Mark Van Steenwyk

Mark Van Steenwyk is a member of Missio Dei. He is a speaker, writer, educator, and grassroots organizer. With the support of the Central Plains Mennonite Conference, he travels to radical and intentional communities around the country to help network and offer support.